These are drafts, papers and short notes: some technical and some for lay audiences.
This short, non-technical essay introduces what is meant by biased opinion and what is special about value bias. This will be a chapter introduction of Bias and Belief at some point.
Who Wants to Be a True Believer?
An attempt to introduce my thesis to a non-technical audience by imagining its central decision-theory model as a game show.
Are People Bayesian? Some Empirical Research
In this extract from Value and Belief, I examine some important psychological research on irrationality and spell out how some apparently irrational, even insane behavior can be understood as rational behaviour directed towards unusual goals. Some philosophical terminology is used.
The Varieties of Inconsistency
Short note for logicians on how inconsistency is understood in the context of the Cox Proof.
Measuring Information: Shannon versus Popper
This is a short note, extracted and adapted from Value and Belief, to persuade philosophers that Shannon's information measure has a desirable property of consistency.
Some reflections on Asperger's Syndrome and the Extreme Male Brain, not connected to the main themes of this site.