What is it we do when we do philosophy? And the related question: How do we teach someone to do philosophy well? A few things come to mind, which are rather universal across philosophies of different times and cultures. Firstly, philosophical engagement is an activity of “thinking slowly”, an activity…

For a wide range of applications of knowledge seeking, the best available wisdom centrally involves what can be called an inquiry complex: a structured set of questions around a central question that experts tend to agree you are on the hook for if you are going to have a serious…

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…