Oof. I’m gonna be thinking about this for a while. What a great question.https://twitter.com/Evolving_Ego/status/1485385291254747138 …
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Yes, it is! With a rich tradition behind it. Some sources: (i) Pyrrhonian skeptics (really into avoiding false belief!) (ii) Socrates (iii) William James, _The Will to Believe_ (iv) lots of modern work from Bayesians, though I don't know this literature well. [1/N]
Here's 5 very very good minutes on the subject on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yjjYq-Z-z0 … [2/N]
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Also, one idea that was very important in the ancient world, and that I think is important now / a lot of people implicitly recognize, but that a lot of contemporary philosophy misses, is that we should aim not only at good beliefs but also good explanations. [3/N]
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Actually I briefly mentioned this recently, at the end of a discussion of temporal bias: https://www.natemeyvis.com/writing/on-temporal-bias/ … [4/N]
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That was great! I wish I had had that clip years ago and played it for every discussion of Type I and Type II errors I’ve ever had! Also, what a great trailer for James’s book.
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