Robinson's Podcast
Robinson's Podcast
Robinson Erhardt
65 - Tania Lombrozo: Explanation and Human Psychology
1 hour 25 minutes Posted Mar 20, 2023 at 2:30 pm.
Introduction
From Philosophy to Psychology
Tania’s Interest in Learning and Explanation
Experiments to Test Our Intuitions About Explanation
Our Intuitions About What Makes a Good Explanation
Explanation-Based Processes
What Demands Explanation?
Religious and Scientific Explanation?
What Makes a Good Answer?
Marr’s Levels of Explanation
Tania’s Work with Neuroscientists
More on Explanations in Science and Religion
Moral Reasoning and Explanation
Can Science Explain the Human Mind?
Philosophy and Psychology
Psychology in Tania’s Life
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Show notes
Tania Lombrozo is Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Psychology at Princeton University, where she directs the Concepts & Cognition Lab. Before that, she did her undergraduate work at Stanford University (!), her graduate work at Harvard University, and then taught at the University of California, Berkeley. Robinson and Tania discuss her work on explanation. Among other things, they touch on our intuitions about what makes explanations good, what makes certain observations seem to demand explanation, some of the differences between religious and scientific explanations, and how we reason about morally charged situations. Keep up with Tania’s work through:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TaniaLombrozo
Tania’s Website: https://psych.princeton.edu/people/tania-lombrozo
The Concepts & Cognition Lab: https://cognition.princeton.edu
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Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.