The PyETR project provides an open-source Python package that models the operations of the Erotetic Theory of Reason (ETR), as presented in Reason and Inquiry (Oxford University Press 2023). ETR proposes that human reason is structured around seeking “erotetic equilibrium” — a state in which judgments are stable and resilient to…

This research programme began with the “Humans in Humans Out” project, which evaluated large language models (LLMs) on reasoning patterns, both accurate and fallacious, that resemble human thinking. The initial work assessed whether LLMs replicated predictable human-like reasoning errors on a relatively small corpus of reasoning problems with empirical support…