Postdoc at Princeton working on the cognitive science of human values. PD on @faha_sfi. Opinions my own. Previously at @sfiscience and @LSEPhilosophy. (he/him)
Aug 16, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Very happy that me and @lastpositivist's paper, "Risk Aversion and Elite-Group Ignorance", has been accepted at PPR. Here's a link to a preprint, and a brief thread: davidbkinney.com/Risk_Aversion_… 1/8
In his 2007 paper "White Ignorance" Charles Mills famously diagnoses a problem in the epistemic lives of many white agents, primarily in the US: they are ignorant of their relative privilege within racist social structures, and this ignorance is caused by those structures. 2/8
Dec 21, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Happy to have just learned that my paper, "Blocking an Argument for Emergent Chance", has been accepted for publication in Journal of Philosophical Logic. Here's a pre-print, followed by a short thread on it: davidbkinney.com/Blocking_an_Ar…. 1/8
For a long time now, philosophers of science, metaphysicians, and epistemologists have been interested in the conditions under which a probability distribution represents "objective chances", or uncertainties that are observer-independent. 2/8
