You may have heard me drone on and on about this thing called “reflective thinking”. We philosophers and cognitive scientists are preoccupied with it. However, we lack a definition of ‘reflective thinking’ that can serve both philosophers and scientists.
Because I do both philosophy and cognitive science, I’ve had to synthesize a measurable construct from fields like psychology and philosophy.
In this episode, I’ll read my latest paper, which explains the two key features of ‘reflection’ and how we measure them. This two-factor account of reflective thinking can unify centuries of English-language scholarship. And it has implications for theories of rationality, self-knowledge, and so-called dual systems.
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