Levi Spectre
Biographic Data
| ID | 1067465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Levi Spectre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Levi |
| FAMILY NAME | Spectre |
| SIGNATURE | SPECTRE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Open University of Israel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2913-346X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Where is the Motivation in Motivated Numeracy
In a series of very influential papers, Dan Kahan argues for “the identity protective cognition thesis”: the claim that politically motivated reasoning is a major factor explaining current levels of polarization over matters of fact, especially in the US. An important part of his case consists of experimental data supporting the claim that ideological polarization is more extreme amongst more numerate individuals. In this paper, we take a close l…
Doncaster pandas and Caesar's armadillo
If you don't know that you know, you could be surprised
Before the semester begins, a teacher tells his students: “There will be exactly one exam this semester. It will not take place on a day that is an immediate‐successor of a day that you are currently in a position to know is not the exam‐day”. Both the students and the teacher know – it is common knowledge – that no exam can be given on the first day of the semester. Since the teacher is truthful and reliable, it seems that the students can know …
Statistical resentment, or
A pragmatic argument against equal weighting
Belief is weak
Epistemic closure under deductive inference
Statistical Evidence, Sensitivity, and the Legal Value of Knowledge
PROBLEMA bus causes harm.In the first scenario, an eyewitness recognizes the bus as belonging to the Blue Bus Company.The witness, however, is imperfectly reliable; let us say that she is roughly 70 percent reliable in matters such as this one.The law has no qualms about accepting the eyewitness testimony as evidence and indeed basing a positive finding that the bus was a Blue Bus bus (and perhaps also that the Blue Bus Company is liable) on the …
Sleeping Beauty meets Monday
Statistical Evidence, Sensitivity, and the Legal Value of Knowledge
PROBLEMA bus causes harm.In the first scenario, an eyewitness recognizes the bus as belonging to the Blue Bus Company.The witness, however, is imperfectly reliable; let us say that she is roughly 70 percent reliable in matters such as this one.The law has no qualms about accepting the eyewitness testimony as evidence and indeed basing a positive finding that the bus was a Blue Bus bus (and perhaps also that the Blue Bus Company is liable) on the …
Epistemic closure under deductive inference
Statistical resentment, or
Sleeping Beauty meets Monday
Doncaster pandas and Caesar's armadillo
Sleeping Beauty meets Monday
Statistical Evidence, Sensitivity, and the Legal Value of Knowledge
PROBLEMA bus causes harm.In the first scenario, an eyewitness recognizes the bus as belonging to the Blue Bus Company.The witness, however, is imperfectly reliable; let us say that she is roughly 70 percent reliable in matters such as this one.The law has no qualms about accepting the eyewitness testimony as evidence and indeed basing a positive finding that the bus was a Blue Bus bus (and perhaps also that the Blue Bus Company is liable) on the …
Epistemic closure under deductive inference
Belief is weak
A pragmatic argument against equal weighting
If you don't know that you know, you could be surprised
Before the semester begins, a teacher tells his students: “There will be exactly one exam this semester. It will not take place on a day that is an immediate‐successor of a day that you are currently in a position to know is not the exam‐day”. Both the students and the teacher know – it is common knowledge – that no exam can be given on the first day of the semester. Since the teacher is truthful and reliable, it seems that the students can know …
Statistical resentment, or
Doncaster pandas and Caesar's armadillo
Where is the Motivation in Motivated Numeracy
In a series of very influential papers, Dan Kahan argues for “the identity protective cognition thesis”: the claim that politically motivated reasoning is a major factor explaining current levels of polarization over matters of fact, especially in the US. An important part of his case consists of experimental data supporting the claim that ideological polarization is more extreme amongst more numerate individuals. In this paper, we take a close l…
Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Metaphysics (5 works) · Philosophy of language (5 works) · History (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Philosophy of science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)