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Treason of the Intellectuals | Jean-François Braunstein

Treason of the Intellectuals | Jean-François Braunstein

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Smart people are better at reasoning. They often come up with good reasons for asinine conclusions. Groups of smart people reason more efficiently and usually generate more and better reasons for those conclusions, independent of what's true. Give smart people academic positions, then jobs for life (tenure), and they are rewarded for reasoning to and justifying asinine ideas.

Peter Boghossian talks with French philosopher Jean-François Braunstein, who has been blacklisted for defending science, about the treason of intellectuals. How did truth come to be treated as a right-wing concept? Why did we abandon objectivity for radical subjectivity? And what happens when power replaces truth as the goal of inquiry?

They dig into epistemology, the confidence we place in our beliefs, and why argumentation and the free exchange of ideas are the only way out.

Can we escape this civilizational catastrophe? Yes. Here's how...

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