False beliefs can be useful in a social sense even if they are not useful in a factual sense. For lack of a better phrase, we might call this approach “factually false, but socially accurate.” When we have to choose between the two, people often select friends and family over facts. Source: Why Facts Don’t […]
Category: Critical Thinking
Intellectual humility and the difficult knowledge of theology: Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy: Vol 16, No 3
“intellectual humility” as a mode for moving toward new avenues of knowledge-making, particularly as an epistemic stance against the kinds of “intellectual arrogance” Source: Intellectual humility and the difficult knowledge of theology: Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy: Vol 16, No 3
Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking That IQ Tests Miss – Scientific American
dysrationalia Source: Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking That IQ Tests Miss – Scientific American
