Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedAgnes Callard: belief
11 Apr 2018 Conversations with Tyler Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything
“I would say, most of the time, I change my mind because people show me that I’m wrong.”
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- Speaker
- Agnes Callard
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 11 Apr 2018
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…You think so? Yes. I’ve just been refuted many times. When I was in the job market, I’d just gotten my PhD, and I was giving talks. My entire dissertation was refuted by one of my now colleagues who asked me a question in the job interview that showed me that the central distinction I was using in my dissertation didn’t work. I then tried to rehabilitate a part of it. This is just to give you some example. I had been working on it for about a year. I gave it as a talk at MIT, and a graduate student there refuted it. This has happened to me a number of times. I would say, most of the time, I change my mind because people show me that I’m wrong. Does having studied weakness of will help you better deal with it?…
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