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Lara Buchak

@larabuchak.net

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Philosophy Professor at Princeton. Author of Risk and Rationality. Thinks about decision theory, faith, ethics, epistemology, probability, religion, Kierkegaard. www.larabuchak.net

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Lara Buchak @larabuchak.net · 21/01/2025

Can’t find them, hopefully the bot knows

Lara Buchak @larabuchak.net · 21/01/2025

I worry about that all the time

Lara Buchak @larabuchak.net · 21/01/2025

Violates, yes. Problematic? I flipped a coin and decided to say no

Lara Buchak @larabuchak.net · 21/01/2025

Augustine if it’s a fist fight, Kierkegaard if it’s barbed quips

Lara Buchak @larabuchak.net · 21/01/2025

Yes but that’s something everyone who’s read the book knows

Lara Buchak @larabuchak.net · 21/01/2025

Done, thank you!

Lara Buchak @larabuchak.net · 21/01/2025

Thanks, I’d like to know too!

Lara Buchak @larabuchak.net · 21/01/2025

Yes, but if you ask the guy guarding the other door he’ll say it’s false

Lara Buchak @larabuchak.net · 21/01/2025

Thank you! And agreed!

Lara Buchak @larabuchak.net · 21/01/2025

It’s apparently chatting with people! I’m not sure what it’s saying

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Lara Buchak @larabuchak.net · 21/01/2025

This is the real profile, ask me something only I would know

Lara Buchak @larabuchak.net · 21/01/2025

@larabuchaks.bsky.social is a fake account

Lara Buchak @larabuchak.net · 21/01/2025

There is apparently another profile impersonating me, a mirror of this one with an “s” at the end of my last name—this is the real one!

Lara Buchak @larabuchak.net · 15/05/2024

My paper "Faith and rational deference to authority" is now out in Philosophy & Phenomenological Research. I argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority even when the authority's pronouncement goes against your own reasoning. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Faith and rational deference to authority

Many accounts of faith hold that faith is deference to an authority about what to believe or what to do. I show that this kind of faith fits into a more general account of faith, the risky-commitment....

Lara Buchak @larabuchak.net · 02/01/2024

Really interesting piece on Kurt Godel’s religious beliefs from one of our excellent former postdocs: aeon.co/essays/kurt-... #philsky

Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death | Aeon Essays

The intrepid logician Kurt Gödel believed in the afterlife. In four heartfelt letters to his mother he explained why