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2020-07-25

Disinformation campaigns are murky blends of truth, lies and sincere beliefs – lessons from the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned an infodemic, a vast and complicated mix of information, misinformation and disinformation. In this environment, false narratives – the virus was “planned,” that it originated as a bioweapon, that COVID-19 symptoms are caused by 5G wireless communications technology—have spread like wildfire across social media and other communication platforms. Some of these bogus narratives play a role […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, data, disinformation, honest evidence, honest information, Long live Honety, moral accounting - conspiracies, The Truth is Dead, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-07-11

Emotions should be in the heart of complex political debates

Many researchers from psychology and philosophy, such as Nico Frijda, Antonio Damasio and Martha Nussbaum, have shown that our emotions help us with so-called ‘practical rationality’ – that is, making decisions in complex real-life situations. In my own work, I argue that emotions are important for having moral insights. Emotions are not by definition at […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Holistic Decisioning, Multiple-ways-of-Reasoning, Reasoning, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-07-04

There should never be heroes in science

Some scientists make their careers by criticising other’s research. But who watches the watchmen? …those self-critical, self-correcting principles of science simply don’t allow for hero-worship. Even the strongest critics of science need themselves to be criticised; those who raise the biggest questions about the way we do research need themselves to be questioned. Healthy science […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Honest Accounts, Honesty, Reasoning, Science, Skepticism, Truth-is-Dead-Long-Live-Honesty, values, Valuing Values, Wisdom-as-Multiple-ways-of-Reasoning Leave a Comment

2020-07-04

Why good teachers allow a child’s mind to wander and wonder

Wonder is a nice emotional supplement to education, perhaps, but from a strictly pedagogical perspective it hardly seems necessary. That is wrong. In fact, wonder epitomises what education is about: opening up the world. Any educators interested in – or devoted to – opening up the world to their students should consider wonder essential to […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Future Flourishing, Future Human, Future Learning, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-06-21

Neuroscience has much to learn from Hume’s philosophy of emotions

we can’t tell ourselves whom to fall in love with – means that our wrestling with the passions is what brings the self into being. Habits consolidate what control we can have of our passions. Hume gives habit pride of place in his moral accounting, but the key here is to continually assess whether we […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Future of community, Future of Identity, Future of Social Fabric, Habits, Identity, Passion, Reason, Social Fabric, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

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