Lara Buchak

Can’t find them, hopefully the bot knows

I worry about that all the time

Violates, yes. Problematic? I flipped a coin and decided to say no

Augustine if it’s a fist fight, Kierkegaard if it’s barbed quips

Yes but that’s something everyone who’s read the book knows

Done, thank you!

Thanks, I’d like to know too!

Yes, but if you ask the guy guarding the other door he’ll say it’s false

Thank you! And agreed!

It’s apparently chatting with people! I’m not sure what it’s saying

This is the real profile, ask me something only I would know

@larabuchaks.bsky.social is a fake account

There is apparently another profile impersonating me, a mirror of this one with an “s” at the end of my last name—this is the real one!

Faith and rational deference to authority Many accounts of faith hold that faith is deference to an authority about what to believe or what to do. I show that this kind of faith fits into a more general account of faith, the risky-commitment....

My paper "Faith and rational deference to authority" is now out in Philosophy & Phenomenological Research. I argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority even when the authority's pronouncement goes against your own reasoning.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death | Aeon Essays The intrepid logician Kurt Gödel believed in the afterlife. In four heartfelt letters to his mother he explained why

Really interesting piece on Kurt Godel’s religious beliefs from one of our excellent former postdocs:

aeon.co/essays/kurt-...

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