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2020-11-05

How to know who’s trustworthy

Knotty problems call for sound advice. Use philosophy to find the intellectually dependable amid the frauds and egotists Need to know We need others’ help to figure out what and how to think. Many issues are just too complex for us to tackle on our own. They’re often the subject of bewildering and vociferous debate, […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Honest Accounts, Institutions of Conversation, Institutions of Social Fabric, Trust, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-09-06

Deluded, with reason

 Extraordinary beliefs don’t arise in a vacuum. They take root in minds confronted by unusual and traumatic experiences Given the social function of beliefs, it’s little surprise that delusions usually contain social themes. Might delusion then be a problem of social affiliation, rather than a purely cognitive issue? Bell’s team make just this claim, proposing […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Honest Accounts, Long live Honety, Reasoning in social context, Social Chemistry, Social Fabric, Social foundations of Reasoning, Social Self, Social Values of Belief, The Truth is Dead, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-08-21

What pro wrestling can teach us about the quest for truth

Fans love it when backstage reality seeps into the show. But if there’s too much about backstage machinations, they switch off Plato’s Allegory of the Cave paints a vivid picture of the relationship between humans and the reality we inhabit. We are prisoners in a cave, forced to look at shadows on the wall that appear […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Account held Honest, Accounting for Values, art, culture, Honest Accounts, Kayfab, Media-as-Drama, Narrative, politics-as-drama, Politics-as-entertainment, politics-as-spectacle, Spectacle, Truth, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-08-10

Invisible Manipulators of Your Mind

The behavioral techniques that are being employed by governments and private corporations do not appeal to our reason. The term “propaganda” has been replaced by “a behavioral approach to persuasive communication with quantifiable results.” One We are living in an age in which the behavioral sciences have become inescapable. The findings of social psychology and behavioral […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, fake information, fake news, Honest Accounts, honest evidence, honest information, manipulations of values., Moral Accounting, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-07-27

Nostalgia reimagined

Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Anticipatory Nostalgia, fake news, Future of community, Future of Democracy, Future of Governance, Future of Identity, Honest Accounts, honest evidence, Marketing, Nostalgia, propaganda, Restorative Nostalgia, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

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