Academic Twitter Has Some Salty, Bitter People on It

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Academic Twitter has some real salty, bitter people on it. Mickey Inzlich, the other half of two psychologists, four beers. He's the one that actually drinks. And he got so much pushback from people who wanted him to shut up because as a white-ish man, right, he's with a job, he's gonna be happy. It just strikes me that that's true of any career. We're putting too many out.

David and Tamler argue about William James' classic essay "The Will to Believe." What's more important - avoiding falsehood or discovering truth? When (if ever) is it rational to believe anything without enough evidence? What about beliefs that we can't be agnostic about? Are there hypotheses that we have to believe in order for them to come true? Does James successfully demonstrate that faith can be rational?

Plus, a philosopher at Apple who's not allowed to talk to the media - what are they hiding? And why are academics constantly telling students that academia is a nightmare?

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