Alex Worsnip
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Applied Epistemology Project at UNC Chapel Hill. Current work: rationality; political epistemology. Also baseball (Orioles), music nerd.
- Really excited about the lineup for this. Check out the full thread for details and for how to apply to be a respondent.
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- (Kinda) new paper, with the fab Z Quanbeck, finally out @ Phil Imprint! We defend a combo of epistemic permissivism + limited pragmatism re reasons for belief. This preserves some features of pragmatic encroachment views while avoiding their drawbacks. journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/articl...
- For anyone who has read my "Can Pragmatists Be Moderate?" paper, this is sort of a companion to it: it articulated a problem for pragmatic encroachment views, while this paper articulates a positive (non-encroaching) view that avoids those problems while doing a lot of what PE was designed to do.
- For one year only, the 8th Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop will (paradoxically) be in Montreal! Keynote by Jane Friedman plus 7 talks selected via open CFA. As usual, accepted papers eligible for special issue of Phil Studies. Submissions due Oct 15th; more info at normativity.web.unc.edu
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- The exciting AEP announcements just keep on coming! This is a really cool initiative being spearheaded by our summer 2025 RA Devin Lane--anyone interested in writing applied epistemology for a public audience should apply!
- These explainer videos (produced and animated by the fantastic Ripley Stroud) are among my favorite things we're doing at the @unc-aep.bsky.social. The second one just came out, featuring Kevin Dorst on polarization. Please check it out and share widely!
- What a gigantic surprise--the "civil discourse" folks have been having a little trouble with their civil discourse www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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- Reposted by Alex WorsnipNew Paper in Philosophical Psychology: Trust in experts is low. Why? How bad is it? And what should we do? To answer these questions, we reviewed philosophy (when *ought* we defer to the experts) and psychology (when *do* people defer to the experts). Link in comments!
- Speedy work by @journalphp.bsky.social and their publishers--the published version of the paper is now available, open access (thanks to our grant!), here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- I wrote a blog post about Samuel Alito as a case study in the ethics of suspicion and psychologizing blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
- First (soon to be) published paper to come out of a fun collaborative project we're doing at UNC with a group of philosophers and psychologists on deference to experts!
- It's this kind of thing that gives me hope that we live in a simulation designed by a massive joker and all the other crap that's going on is just a part of that too
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- I'm honored to be the guest lecturer at this year's Cologne Summer School in Philosophy, where I'll be delivering five lectures (plus a public lecture) on my current work in applied epistemology. (1/2) cssip.uni-koeln.de
- Genuinely never thought I'd see the day when Mitch McConnell was described by other Republicans as a "RINO". *Mitch McConnell* as "Republican in Name Only". Because he--what?--opposed like 1% of Trump's agenda and appointments?
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- Reposted by Alex WorsnipTermination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.
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- This is so depressing. The UK has a very restrictive (and at times cruelly arbitrary) immigration system. For years the Tories have been entirely inaccurately accusing Labour of presiding over "open borders" when they were in government; now Labour is accusing the Tories of the same. Utter fiction.
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- Reposted by Alex WorsnipWhen Stanford IT staff and a pro-diversity group shared a list of words they encouraged others not to use, it was national news, despite the fact it never represented campus policy. When the government erases any mention, data or research related to words, will it be treated as a free speech issue?
- I feel like 'all-inclusive' actually *never* comes up in a DEI context and only ever refers to like package vacations
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- Reposted by Alex WorsnipI've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI
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- Reposted by Alex WorsnipIf you’ve ever complained about free speech on college campuses but aren’t upset about this, you’re not serious. Can’t even do mainstream economics while avoiding this list.
- Reposted by Alex Worsnip🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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- New @nytpitchbot.bsky.social submission: Whether it's Trump's tariffs on Canada and Mexico or Democrats putting trade sanctions on Iran, both sides have used protectionist trade policies for political ends
- Even if you think "woke culture" is a problem, you've absolutely lost it if you think it's a bigger problem than what we are currently seeing from the new administration
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- No matter how hard Trump tries, he will never own a Canadian as hard as Kendrick did
- It's important to have a balanced approach to life, where you make time to stop focusing on the awful political situation and just relax and enjoy yourself by watching your favorite basketball team get absolutely crushed by their biggest rivals
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