In his recent book Bad Beliefs and Why They Happen to Good People, Neil Levy argues that conspiracy theories result from the same rational processes underlie epistemic success. While we think many of Levy’s points are valuable, like criticism myth individual cognition emphasis on importance one’s social environment, believe account overlooks some important aspects. We argue deference is an acti...

As soon as Maxwell published his first paper on the kinetic theory of gases in 1860, he noted that a major consequence of its principles, namely the equipartition theorem, conflicted with known empirical data about the specific heats of poly-atomic gases. According to the equipartition theorem, the total kinetic energy of an isolated system of particles at equilibrium is equally distributed amo...

The concepts in game theory have been evolving in such a way that existing theories are recasted to apply to problems that previously appeared not to fit in. One of the most scrutinized concepts is backward induction. In extensive form games, given common knowledge of rationality, the outcome is backward induction. However, experiment results are contradictory from what game theory predicts. Se...