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Nov 2024
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Ep. 354: Guest Tim Williamson on Philoso...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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Oxford philosophy professor Timothy Williamson talks to us about his new book, Overfitting and Heuristics in Philosophy.

How can we best apply the insights of philosophy of science to philosophy itself? Maybe some alleged philosophical counter-examples are just the result of psychological heuristics gone wrong.

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