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EPISODE · Dec 9, 2025 · 1H 37M

Reasoning and Epistemic Vigilance with Hugo Mercier

from Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) · host Dave Pietraszewski & David Pinsof

Is the evolved mind prone to believing misinformation? Are people gullible? What is reasoning, anyway? And what is it for? In this episode, we talk all things reasoning with Hugo Mercier (Institute Jean Nicod). If you have an opinion about whether people are reasonable (or not) this episode is for you.    More about Hugo Mercier: https://sites.google.com/site/hugomercier/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=b3o24EEAAAAJ&hl=en  

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