Rob Sica
@robsica.bsky.social
Knowledge would have little allure if we did not have to overcome so much shame on the way to acquiring it. -Nietzsche
"Here #Nietzsche shows himself to be human, all too human (or, one is tempted to say, male, all too male)."
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November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"Here #Nietzsche shows himself to be human, all too human (or, one is tempted to say, male, all too male)."
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Preface and several sections of Chapter 1:
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November 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Preface and several sections of Chapter 1:
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Benenson and Hooven on Andrews...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Benenson and Hooven on Andrews...
www.thefp.com/p/have-ameri...
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"What’s presented as public opinion is really academic ideology surveying itself and calling it consensus."
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
"What’s presented as public opinion is really academic ideology surveying itself and calling it consensus."
👏🎯"Our perspective utilizes evidence and theory from across evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary psychology, and evolutionary psychiatry"
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November 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
👏🎯"Our perspective utilizes evidence and theory from across evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary psychology, and evolutionary psychiatry"
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Sure beats the heck out of the awful Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry for evo psych... Tim Kuran has also commented favorably on Grokipedia's coverage of "preference falsification" and "availability cascade"
October 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Sure beats the heck out of the awful Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry for evo psych... Tim Kuran has also commented favorably on Grokipedia's coverage of "preference falsification" and "availability cascade"
I rarely read anything in Quillette unless authored by academics writing about something on which they have a claim to expertise, as this author most certainly does:
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October 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I rarely read anything in Quillette unless authored by academics writing about something on which they have a claim to expertise, as this author most certainly does:
faculty.uci.edu/profile/?fac...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
October 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
💥🔪"as happened with social psychologists’ claims about implicit bias... psychological elites have not established that they are more adept than non-elites at debiasing their collective judgments or more honest than non-elites"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
💥🔪"as happened with social psychologists’ claims about implicit bias... psychological elites have not established that they are more adept than non-elites at debiasing their collective judgments or more honest than non-elites"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🔪"The dark side of moral conviction presents a paradox that is both intellectually intriguing and socially relevant." nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
🔪"The dark side of moral conviction presents a paradox that is both intellectually intriguing and socially relevant." nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
⚡️🔪"Goodness is even more vast and ancient than benevolence and by no means beholden to morality... Human purpose, goals, and values do not depend on a moral code. We do not need a moral compass for direction because we have a goodness compass."
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
⚡️🔪"Goodness is even more vast and ancient than benevolence and by no means beholden to morality... Human purpose, goals, and values do not depend on a moral code. We do not need a moral compass for direction because we have a goodness compass."
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🎯🔪"Together, these concerns warrant deep skepticism of psychological elitism—so deep that we recommend adopting the starting stance of epistemic parity: place psychological elites’ explanations for non-elite opinions and non-elites’ explanations for those opinions as meriting equal consideration."
October 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🎯🔪"Together, these concerns warrant deep skepticism of psychological elitism—so deep that we recommend adopting the starting stance of epistemic parity: place psychological elites’ explanations for non-elite opinions and non-elites’ explanations for those opinions as meriting equal consideration."
🔪"it would be highly surprising if philosophical intuitions in general were not subject to the same kinds of reliability issues that Joyce points to with respect to moral intuitions"
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October 13, 2025 at 12:46 AM
🔪"it would be highly surprising if philosophical intuitions in general were not subject to the same kinds of reliability issues that Joyce points to with respect to moral intuitions"
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