Nathan Ballantyne: Knowing Our Limits

SCHAFFER’S DEMON by NATHAN BALLANTYNE AND IAN EVANS

Jonathan Schaffer (2010) has summoned a new sort of demon – which he calls the debasing demon – that apparently threatens all of our purported knowledge. We show that any debasing skeptical argument must attack the justification condition and can do so only if a plausible thesis about justification is false. Jonathan Schaffer (2010) has summoned a new sort of demon – what he calls the debasing ...

Dr J. W. Ballantyne

Knowing our Customers: A Quantitative Analysis of Geomatics Students

In recent years, there have been considerable changes to the Hong Kong education system, some of which directly influence the management of tertiary education. At the same time, the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-informatics of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University has also gone through stages of restructuring. These changes were necessaryto adjust to the global broadening of the professio...

Knowing One’s Limits Logical Analysis of Inductive Inference

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Knowing the crowd within: Metacognitive limits on combining multiple judgments.

We investigated how decision-makers use multiple opportunities to judge a quantity. Decision-makers undervalue the benefit of combining their own judgment with an advisor's, but theories disagree about whether this bias would apply to combining several of one's own judgments. Participants estimated percentage answers to general knowledge questions (e.g., What percent of the world's population u...