The Knowledge Illusion

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Mentioned by Lee Vinsel as a book summarizing the superficiality of modern discourse.

Mentioned by Steve Sloman as his previous book.

Mentioned by Julie Sedivy as a book discussing how people often think they know more than they do.

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Tim Harford in the context of an experiment on the illusion of explanatory depth and its impact on political polarization.

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Kevin DeLaPlante in relation to the concept of the knowledge illusion.

Mentioned by Steven Sloman as the book he popularized the idea of the knowledge illusion in.

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Shankar Vedantam at the end of the podcast as the co-authors of the book.

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