Join us for a change of pace episode where we get to nerd out on philosophy with our friend, Blake Roeber. Blake Roeber is a professor and philosopher at Notre Dame who specializes in formal and social epistemology. Blake joins us to talk about his book on political humility and why our country is so polarized right now. We also delve into the relationship between political bias and our theological views. Blake has an amazing ability to communicate complex truths in a way that people will understand and appreciate.
For additional resources, check out these:
Bishop, Bill (2009), The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing us Apart (Boston: Houghton Mifflin).
Kahan, Dan, Ellen Peters, Erica Cantrell Dawson, and Paul Slovic (2007), “Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition,” Journal of Emperical Legal Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3: pp. 465-505.
——— (2011), “Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus,” Journal of Risk Research. Vol. 14: pp. 147-74.
——— (2012), “The Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks” Nature, Climate Change, Vol. 2: pp. 732–35.
——— (2017), “Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government,” Behavioural Public Policy, Vol 1, No. 1: pp. 54-86.
Putnam, Robert and David Campbell (2010), American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (New York: Simon and Schuster)