Tyler Cowen: belief

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…Someone made the comment — and I wonder if you agree with it — that maybe that’s just a casualty of the fact that it’s only an hour interview, and he simply doesn’t have the time, and in general, your style is to make your point and move on. Does he have the time to maybe go into the depths to give you the deep defense? Or does he have to, on some level, just assert? I think there are ways, even in a sentence or two, you could show higher depth or defensibility. There’s this odd feature of Popperianism — it’s a bit like Misesianism. It somehow attracts a lot of dogmatists. I don’t know why. You would think a philosophy that emphasizes fallibility and refutation wouldn’t do that, but it does. Next question from @gasca. Asked a number of ones. I think the one I’ll pick is, “We talked about university curriculum, but if you could do whatever you wanted, how would you change elementary, middle school, high school curricula?”…

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