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233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Role of Reason in Reasoning
Roxanne Jones: I want to be a tiny bit of a skeptic just to give you the chance to push back. So essentially we think of reason has it in two sides. On one hand, we use reason to produce reasons and arguments and justifications. And when we do that, we are quite thoroughly biased. But there's this other side of reason which is how we evaluate arguments. When someone else gives you an argument, then your incentives are very different. Your incentives are much closer to the kind of normative goal of having an objective, objectively true answer.
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