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Arindam Basu
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Doctor, Professor, Epidemiologist at University of Canterbury, NZ. Machine learning. Environment. Epidemiology. Digital Twins. Meta Analysis. Julia. Aotearoa. at social.arinbasu.online. Founder of TwinMe, signal: arinbasu.89
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Congratulations!
September 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Oh dear, this “fear” ruined India. We hope this mistake is not repeated in Aotearoa here again.
August 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Yes, I think I have, if not, I will. I really like your approach to life. What a champion you are!
August 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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You were brilliant in that podcast. This is my favourite podcast anyway and among other benefits, my driving has become slower and more relaxing because on this podcast I was listening to you.
August 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Comparable to what happened in Kolkata (Calcutta). An incompetent administration destroyed a vibrant, safe, economic, zero-polluting electric tram network in the city. There was even a collaboration with Melbourne on sustaining trams which, I believe, is now dead.
April 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Wow!!
April 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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O’Rourke-Friel (2025). Social epistemology for individuals like us. Episteme.

Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/epi....
This paper argues that we are not just social epistemic creatures because we operate in social contexts. We are social epistemic creatures because of the nature of our epistemic cognitive capacities. In The Enigma of Reason, Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber develop and defend the view that reasoning is a social competence that yields epistemic benefits for individuals through social interaction with others. I argue an epistemological consequence of their position is that, when beliefs are formed and sustained by dialogical deliberation, the relevant justification-conferring process doesn’t occur solely within the cognition of the subject whose belief is under evaluation. Rather, it extends to include her interactive engagement with other deliberative participants. I argue this demonstrates that not all justification-conferring is evidential. As such, the analysis not only supports reconceiving the process reliabilist’s notion of justification-conferring processes; it also serves as an argument against evidentialism. A goal of this paper is to demonstrate that social epistemology isn’t merely a siloed offshoot of traditional epistemology. Even when approaching social epistemology using a conservative methodology, our investigation has serious implications for fundamental questions concerning epistemic normativity.
April 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Oh dear!
April 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM