Inconvenient ideas and how to disagree
Video of a discussion at Integrity 20 Brisbane in October 2018, with Tom Switzer, Jodie Ginsberg and Stan Grant.
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Tag: Reason & rationality
The influential wrongness of AJ Ayer
Ayer’s work tells us important things about the shortcomings of Anglophone philosophy. Blog for Prospect.
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Is reason the slave of the passions?
In debate with Simon Jenkins about David Hume’s bold challenge to the primacy of pure logical thinking, in Prospect.
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How nudge theory is ageing well
Review of Cass Sunstein’s two new books in the FT
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The incoherence of evidence-based policy
Values, not data, are the basis of policy. The job of evidence is to inform policy-making to maximise the chances that any given reform achieves the ideological goal. It cannot tell us what that goal should be.
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