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#86 (Reaction) - On Confidence and Evidence: Reacting to Brett Hall and Peter Boghossian (Part 2)
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Further Reading
https://www.thesun.ie/news/15281868/sligo-doctor-ali-al-najjar-nieces-nephew-killed-gaza/
https://www.thejournal.ie/brother-woman-nine-kids-gaza-6717437-May2025/
https://amp.rte.ie/amp/1515399/
https://www.oceanfm.ie/northwest-today-show/fundraiser-launched-after-sligo-doctors-9-nieces-and-nephews-killed-in-gaza-attack-504443
https://www.oceanfm.ie/news/dail-hears-of-devastation-caused-to-sligo-doctors-family-in-gaza-503064
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/sligo/news/sligo-doctors-nine-nephews-and-nieces-killed-in-devastating-gaza-attack/a121298480.html
Episode Blurb
Back with part two of our reaction to What's the most rational way to know?, a discussion between Brett Hall and Peter Boghossian on the relationship between confidence and evidence. Listen to part 1 first, availble here: https://www.incrementspodcast.com/85
It seems weird to try to be funny in this blurb, given the introduction, so going to keep the description lean. Back with our usual lighthearted nonsense next episode!
Check out more from Brett Hall here and Peter Boghossian here.
We discuss
- A falliblist's view of confidence
- Confidence as a form of implicit knowledge
- Problems with attempting to define "knowledge"
- Can we "derive" moral facts?
- Being triggered by the word 'derive'
References
- Paper discussing how it took the wider scientific community over 40 years (after Eddington's experiment!) to become convinced in the truth of general relativity: The 1919 measurement of the deflection of light
- Eddington's original paper:
- Vaden and Brett's blog exchange
Socials
- Follow us on Twitter at @IncrementsPod, @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani
- Come join our discord server! DM us on twitter or send us an email to get a supersecret link
- Become a patreon subscriber here. Or give us one-time cash donations to help cover our lack of cash donations here.
- Click dem like buttons on youtube
Please donate to: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-dr-alaa-alnajjar-and-her-family-in-gaza
89 episodes
Manage episode 485890521 series 3418237
Go fund me page for Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar
Please donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-dr-alaa-alnajjar-and-her-family-in-gaza
Podcast w/ Dr. Ali Al Najjar
Further Reading
https://www.thesun.ie/news/15281868/sligo-doctor-ali-al-najjar-nieces-nephew-killed-gaza/
https://www.thejournal.ie/brother-woman-nine-kids-gaza-6717437-May2025/
https://amp.rte.ie/amp/1515399/
https://www.oceanfm.ie/northwest-today-show/fundraiser-launched-after-sligo-doctors-9-nieces-and-nephews-killed-in-gaza-attack-504443
https://www.oceanfm.ie/news/dail-hears-of-devastation-caused-to-sligo-doctors-family-in-gaza-503064
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/sligo/news/sligo-doctors-nine-nephews-and-nieces-killed-in-devastating-gaza-attack/a121298480.html
Episode Blurb
Back with part two of our reaction to What's the most rational way to know?, a discussion between Brett Hall and Peter Boghossian on the relationship between confidence and evidence. Listen to part 1 first, availble here: https://www.incrementspodcast.com/85
It seems weird to try to be funny in this blurb, given the introduction, so going to keep the description lean. Back with our usual lighthearted nonsense next episode!
Check out more from Brett Hall here and Peter Boghossian here.
We discuss
- A falliblist's view of confidence
- Confidence as a form of implicit knowledge
- Problems with attempting to define "knowledge"
- Can we "derive" moral facts?
- Being triggered by the word 'derive'
References
- Paper discussing how it took the wider scientific community over 40 years (after Eddington's experiment!) to become convinced in the truth of general relativity: The 1919 measurement of the deflection of light
- Eddington's original paper:
- Vaden and Brett's blog exchange
Socials
- Follow us on Twitter at @IncrementsPod, @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani
- Come join our discord server! DM us on twitter or send us an email to get a supersecret link
- Become a patreon subscriber here. Or give us one-time cash donations to help cover our lack of cash donations here.
- Click dem like buttons on youtube
Please donate to: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-dr-alaa-alnajjar-and-her-family-in-gaza
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1 #81 - What Does Critical Rationalism Get Wrong? (w/ Kasra) 1:39:05

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1 #77 (Bonus) - AI Doom Debate (w/ Liron Shapira) 2:21:22

1 #76 (Bonus) - Is P(doom) meaningful? Debating epistemology (w/ Liron Shapira) 2:50:58

1 #75 - The Problem of Induction, Relitigated (w/ Tamler Sommers) 1:41:13

1 #74 - Disagreeing about Belief, Probability, and Truth (w/ David Deutsch) 1:32:02

1 #73 - The Unfairness of Proportional Representation 1:25:12

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1 #71 (C&R, Chap 19: Part I) - The History of Our Time: An Optimist's View 1:12:50

1 #70 - ... and Bayes Bites Back (w/ Richard Meadows) 1:30:34

1 #69 - Contra Scott Alexander on Probability 1:45:09

1 #68 - Libertarianism IV: Political Issues (w/ Bruce Nielson) 1:50:16

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1 #65 - Libertarianism II: Economic Issues (w/ Bruce Nielson) 1:33:02

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1 #62 (Bonus) - The Principle of Optimism (Vaden on the Theory of Anything Podcast) 2:45:37

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1 #59 (C&R, Chap 8) - On the Status of Science and Metaphysics (Plus reflections on the Brett Hall blog exchange) 1:26:24
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