A while ago I posted a short entry here entitled Nice Argument. I’ll Believe You When You Have a Story. That post linked to a post about the endowment effect on Dan Ariely’s blog in behavioral economics. In that post I wondered if something like the endowment effect (the increased perception of value that comes [...]
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Another Vote for Narratives
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rationality, tagged appeals to emotion, behavioral economics, Dan Ariely, Jonah Lehrer, narrative arguments, narratives, neuroscience on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Does Arguing Make Us Better Reasoners?
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rationality, tagged argument, Argumentation, Rationality, reasoning on March 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Apparently the gang over at Less Wrong think so, and they’ve got a paper that backs them up. From the blog: Mercier and Sperber argue that, when you look at research that studies people in the appropriate settings, we turn out to be in fact quite good at reasoning when we are in the process [...]
Semantic Stopsigns
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rationality, tagged Argumentation, Discussion, Future of Humanity Institute, Less Wrong, Rationality, semantic stopsigns on January 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Less Wrong is a blog sponsored by Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute: a research group devoted mostly to issues in AI development aimed at increasing human intelligence. While many posts center on those issues, the folks over there frequently consider ideas about rationality and reasoning. Essentially, hardcore Bayesianism rules the roost, and there seems [...]
The Twelve Virtues of Rationality (!)
Posted in Discussion, Rationality, tagged AI, Argumentation, Rationality, Yudkowski on January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I found this interesting post on the twelve virtues of rationality on the blog of artificial intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowski. The fifth virtue, you’ll be happy to know, is argument.
Irrationality and the Critical Thinking Classroom
Posted in Connections, Rationality, Teaching, tagged critical thinking, heuristics and biases, Informal Logic, Rationality, Teaching on January 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Thinking about the last post got me wondering if anyone besides myself regularly covers forms of irrationality that are studied in the social sciences in their Critical Thinking or Informal Logic classes. It seems to me to be important for students to know about things like the endowment effect, the bandwagon effect, confirmation bias, framing [...]
Nice Argument. I’ll Believe You When You Have a Story.
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rationality, tagged Ariely, bias, economics, meaning, narrative, Rationality on January 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I hadn’t heard of this before, but in a very interesting article on his blog Predictably Irrational (after the excellent book of the same name) behavioral economist and theorist about rationality Dan Ariely describes what he calls the endowment effect: [T]he endowment effect [is] the theory that once we own something, its value increases in [...]
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