A Heterodox Education
The Constance Holden Memorial Address, 2025.
Claire Lehmann
· 22 min read
Cognitive Science
A collection of 9 posts
Invisible Disability and Hidden Potential
Sir Simon Baron-Cohen: “When you systemise, you try to analyse the rules, the events that happen with some regularity, and causal relationships, so you can identify predictable patterns.”
Hannah Gal
· 16 min read
Education’s Elephant in the Room
We devote a lot of resources to trying to equalise student outcomes, but under ideal learning conditions, individual differences in student achievement widen.
Russell T. Warne
· 21 min read
Stupidity as Moral Negligence
Those guilty of political stupidity do not necessarily suffer from a lack of reasoning skills.
J.P. de Ruiter
· 9 min read
The Other Crisis in Psychology
Psychological scientists are quick to spot unwarranted causal inferences in others' research — but blind to the same errors in their own, possibly driven by ideological commitments and self-interest.
April L. Bleske-Rechek
· 16 min read
Bad Data Analysis and Psychology's Replication Crisis
This isn’t the first time this has happened in video game research.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 6 min read
Lessons From a Recovering Identity Warrior
I left identity politics activism — and learned hard lessons about groupthink, moral certainty, and what happens when ideology becomes your whole identity.
Maziar Ghaderi
· 7 min read
Forget Nature versus Nurture — Nature Has Won
Plomin tries to present this cascade of new information about the genetic influence on human behavior in a way that will positively affect human behavior – but his own work suggests the impact of such arguments will be limited.
Gregory Cochran
· 7 min read
Academia's Consilience Crisis
Consilience makes the case for epistemological inter-relation, put into practice by the congregation of diverse fields of inquiry.
Phil Theofanos
· 8 min read