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Research

Cognitive Immunology

Cognitive Immunology

Cognitive Immunology

How does the mind's immune system work? Can we boost our immunity to bad ideas? Can we strengthen mental immune systems against failure? How?

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Mattering Theory

Cognitive Immunology

Cognitive Immunology

What really matters and why? What would a responsible, shared "map" of what matters look like? Learn about my work in mattering theory.

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Critical Thinking

Cognitive Immunology

Foundations of Morality

Critical thinking skills have never been more important. Can we inoculate ourselves against bad ideas and toxic ideologies? How?

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Foundations of Morality

Foundations of Morality

Foundations of Morality

Where do values come from? What are they for? Can we upgrade our understanding of right and wrong, and become better versions of ourselves?

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Street signs indicating the intersection of Faith and Reason

Reason and Faith

Foundations of Morality

How Reason Evolved

What is faith, and how does it help people? Can we promote trust, hope, and other "prosocial" attitudes with sanctioning stubborn dogmatism? How?

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How Reason Evolved

Foundations of Morality

How Reason Evolved

How did humanity's capacity to reason evolve? In this scholarly paper, I show that it evolved to facilitate the alignment of mental states.

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Complex and interconnected spiral patterns

How Dialogue Works

How to Bridge Our Ideological Differences

How to Bridge Our Ideological Differences

How does dialogue work? Can we make it work better? What norms must we obey to resolve our differences and forge real understanding? 

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Two figures face off across a broken bridge. Each carries a stone to repair the divide.

How to Bridge Our Ideological Differences

How to Bridge Our Ideological Differences

How to Bridge Our Ideological Differences

Can we bridge our ideological differences? How? Can we prevent thinking from becoming ideological in the first place?

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Rodin's statue, "The Thinker"

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How to Bridge Our Ideological Differences

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You can find many of my articles and essays here.

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