We are still getting used to the fact that we can't just say or share things without there maybe being some sort of rebuttal. Jeremy Sherman has written about this extensively. He is an evolutionary epistemologist, a person who studies the way human beings have over time learned how to get at the truth.
On this episode we discuss the psychology of arguing and interview both Jeremy Shermer and Hugo Mercier. Afterward, I eat an orange chocolate chip cookie and read a news story about reading your partner's mood in old age.
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