Chenwei Nie
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Chenwei Nie
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leverhulme early career fellow @ university of warwick.
philosophy of psychiatry • philosophy of mind • epistemology
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/nie/
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A great session full of new insights on epistemic injustice!
May 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Brilliant talk!
May 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Why do we sometimes believe something against the evidence?

My recent paper in AJP proposes a new explanation, suggesting that it may be 'caused' by harmful #seemings.

↪️ doi.org/10.1080/0004...
#Philsky
May 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Having a ‘clear #intuition’ is often valued as a guide to truth.🔆

However, my recent paper cautions that clear intuitions can be epistemically harmful, leading to a spectrum of unfortunate outcomes from everyday #irrational beliefs to clinical #delusions.⛈️

↪️Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12592
The dark side of clarity: We all have experiences in which it “seems clear” to us that something is true. This kind of clear experience can play significant roles in determining whether we believe something to be true. But what are the significant roles? So far, the literature has focused on optimal cases where a person's clear experience might provide prima facie justification for their belief. This article will develop the hypothesis that, in less optimal cases, these clear experiences can be epistemically damaging. Specifically, it will argue that, in certain cases, such experiences may causally compel belief even in the face of counterevidence.
November 30, 2024 at 8:53 AM