Lara Buchak
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Lara Buchak
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Philosophy Professor at Princeton. Author of Risk and Rationality. Thinks about decision theory, faith, ethics, epistemology, probability, religion, Kierkegaard.
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This is the real profile, ask me something only I would know
January 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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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!
January 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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/...
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....
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May 15, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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Really interesting piece on Kurt Godel’s religious beliefs from one of our excellent former postdocs:

aeon.co/essays/kurt-...

#philsky
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
aeon.co
January 2, 2024 at 3:58 PM