The Prisoner’s Dilemma
Imagine two prisoners who are rational and self-interested. The Police catch them on a minor offence. The Police suspect that they were also involved in a more serious offence but have no evidence for this.
Inference to the best explanation
Inference to the best explanation is a form of reasoning where one infers that the hypothesis, among competing hypotheses, which best explains the available data is likely true.
PISA and social media use
PISA is the OECD's triennial Programme for International Student Assessment. PISA measures 15-year-olds’ ability to use their reading, mathematics and science knowledge and skills to meet real-life challenges.
What is a slippery slope argument?
This is an informal fallacy which occurs when an initial, seemingly minor, action will inevitably trigger a chain reaction, leading to increasingly severe, undesirable outcomes, often without sufficient evidence for each step.
Moving beyond GDP
How do you measure the wealth of a nation? Is the modern world too focused on economic growth at all costs?
What is soft power?
Soft power is the ability of a country to influence international affairs through cultural, reputational and persuasive means rather than the brute hard power of military or economic ways.
Gettier cases
The American philosopher Edmund Gettier argued in a famous paper in 1963 that we can have a JTB and yet still not have knowledge…
Deductive and inductive arguments
In everyday speech, we say, ‘You make a valid argument’, ‘You have a valid point’, ‘That’s a sound point’, ‘That’s a good argument’, ‘That’s a strong argument’ and so on. This is rather loose-speak.
E-sports in South Korea
Would you like to spend eight to sixteen hours a day playing on the computer?