{"id":2498,"date":"2022-04-06T13:22:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T13:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2022-04-06T13:22:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T13:22:16","slug":"why-do-people-believe-weird-things-bayesian-brains-conspiracy-theories-and-intellectual-vice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/2022\/04\/06\/why-do-people-believe-weird-things-bayesian-brains-conspiracy-theories-and-intellectual-vice\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do people believe weird things?  Bayesian Brains, Conspiracy Theories, and Intellectual Vice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Talk Series on Conspiracy Theories &amp; Rationality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please register to acquire zoom link for participation. Send Email to: firuze.mullaoglu@rub.de Further info: www.tobiasschlicht.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organized by Dr. Nina Poth, Dr. Krzysztof Dolega, Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upcoming Talks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April 21 <strong>MICHAEL STREVENS<\/strong> (NYU)<br>Irrationality and Rationality in Science&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April 28 <strong>SAM GERSHMAN<\/strong> (Harvard)&nbsp;<br>How to never be wrong&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May 5 | 6 pm !!! (CET) <strong>CAILIN O\u2019CONNOR<\/strong> (Irvine)&nbsp;<br>Multiple Mechanisms for Polarization&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May 12 <strong>C. THI NGUYEN <\/strong>(Utah)&nbsp;<br>The Seductions of Clarity&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May 19 <strong>SARAH FISHER<\/strong> (Vienna)<br>Reading between the lines: Language-based Inferences and (Ir)rationality<br><br>June 02 <strong>HUGO MERCIER<\/strong> (Paris)&nbsp;<br>Not Born Yesterday: Why people are less gullible than we think&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June 23 <strong>MONA SIMION<\/strong> (Glasgow)&nbsp;<br>Politically Motivated Reasoning and Evidence Resistance&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June 30 <strong>\u00c5SA M. WIKFORSS<\/strong> (Stockholm)&nbsp;<br>Resisting the Facts: Is it Irrational?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>July 7 <strong>CHRIS RANALLI<\/strong> (Amsterdam)&nbsp;<br>Norms of Conspiracy Theorizing&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>July 14 <strong>REGINA RINI<\/strong> (Toronto)&nbsp;<br>Tba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk Series on Conspiracy Theories &amp; Rationality Please register to acquire zoom link for participation. Send Email to: firuze.mullaoglu@rub.de Further info: www.tobiasschlicht.com Organized by Dr. Nina Poth, Dr. Krzysztof Dolega, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,2],"tags":[],"pub_author":[],"post_folder":[197],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mainmix","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2919,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"pub_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pub_author?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philosophy-cognition.com\/cmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}