The Role of Vices in the Yom Kippur War

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It's not just foolishness or stupidity or ignorance that we're talking about here. It's some way of thinking that you have that is actively obstructing you from getting to the truth Yeah, so let me let me give you another example. I mean so one of the chapters talks about the famous case of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. So this is this is something that's been really extensively Studied in Israel and elsewhere. That people on the other side will have different different examples. These examples are great because it highlights how what we're talking About Forget about cognitive biases for a second, but it's an active you you distinguish between attitudes styles of thinking and character traits that

All of us have been wrong about things from time to time. But sometimes it was a simple, forgivable mistake, while other times we really should have been correct. Properties that systematically prevent us from being correct, and for which we can legitimately be blamed, are “intellectual vices.” Examples might include closed-mindedness, wishful thinking, overconfidence, selective attention, and so on. Quassim Cassam is a philosopher who studies knowledge in various forms, and who has recently written a book Vices of the Mind: From the Intellectual to the Political. We talk about the nature of intellectual vices, how they manifest in people and in organizations, and what we can possibly do to correct them in ourselves.

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Quassim Cassam received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Oxford University. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He previously held faculty positions at Cambridge University and University College London. He has served as the president of the Aristotelian Society, and was awarded a Leadership Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK.

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