Nathan Ballantyne
Prof of Philosophy, Cognition, and Culture at @ASU. Research on bias, expertise, disagreement, and open-minded thinking. Author of Knowing Our Limits (Oxford).
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- I wrote a short essay about a disagreement I recently had with a friend. thefulcrum.us/civic-engage...
- Desert kit fox
- Course readers are back in style
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- Reposted by Nathan Ballantyne"In philosophy especially, I figure the reader is nearly always gasping for breath, in danger of being swept out to sea, so the writer should do everything in their power to help..." Penelope Maddy is interviewed by Nathan Ballantyne - @nathanballantyne.bsky.social - at The Workbench
- I interviewed philosopher Penelope Maddy about her writing craft. We talked about her past experience in Hollywood screenwriting, her advice to students, baseball, and more. Check it out! www.the-workbench.ca/interviews/p...
- Here’s the best poem ever written about John Rawls.
- Not quite
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- Everybody chill out and take an epistemology pill
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- Theateritis: “the tendency of military commanders to look only at the needs of their own theater of operation, and not at the requirements of fighting the war as a whole.”
- An excellent essay about misconduct in Alzheimer’s research. “Hubris and lassitude about misconduct — shared by other funders and regulators, journals and universities — has to change. Alzheimer’s research must start self-policing effectively.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
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- “Philosophy is the conflict between the obvious and the obvious.” – Renford Bambrough (1926–99)
- “Never trust anyone”
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- Philosophy, according to Irwin Edman (1896–1954), a professor at Columbia University, is “a peculiarly serious and comprehensive kind of poetry.”
- Richard Cartwright, a well-regarded philosopher who spent most of his career at MIT, got into graduate school with this recommendation letter as a part of his application.
- An audacious grad school application cover letter from James Ross, who taught at UPenn until his death in 2010. “The application asks what my future plens and ambitions may be. In a word they are this: to become the finest and most influential professor of philosophy in the country.”
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- Arizona lawn art
- Epistemologists talking about hands!
- “I can smell burnt toast” 🇨🇦 youtu.be/pUOG2g4hj8s?...
- Sometimes a book’s blurb contains a line that’s so good you immediately know you have to buy it, despite the fact you’ve never encountered the author. “vibrant portraits of some of the most intensely irritating intellectuals ever known” press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
- Nothing new under the sun
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