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Risky business

A new article in the latest issue of the PNAS entitled “Predicting risky choices from brain activity patterns“ (h/t to Shannon Selin). This study reminds me of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s work: Prospect theory concerns the psychophysics of wealth utility: that is, the perceived tradeoffs between potential outcomes and the probability of some outcome occurring. Kahneman…

EPISTEME 11:1

Latest issue of EPISTEME. Some freebies and I think the first review (critical notice) for the jnl, fittingly the target book being Hilary Kornblith’s On Reflection. EPISTEMEEpistemologysocial epistemology

The Moviegoer – quotes and extracts – 3

Truthfully, it is the fear of exposing my own ignorance which constrains me from mentioning the object of my search. For, to begin with, I cannot even answer this, the simplest and most basic of all questions: Am I, in my search, a hundred miles ahead of my fellow Americans or a hundred miles behind…