Is There Any Evidence?

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"I just don't see that as his argument. If I if I thought that was his argument, then I would also be with you and say that that's not a good argument," he says. "When having 90% evidence to believe something, all it means is that you can be a fallibleist about your views." He adds: "If you don't have any sense of what counts as sufficient, then there's going to be other considerations that will have to play into whether or not you believe something"

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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