On the Culture, Religion, Technology podcast, Bambi Francisco speaks with John Pittard, an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Yale Divinity School (with a secondary appointment in Yale’s philosophy department), who works primarily in epistemology and philosophy of religion.
A major focus of his work has been questions concerning the epistemic significance of disagreement with informed and intelligent disputants. This is the focus of Pittard’s book with Oxford University Press, Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment. Much of his current research is focused on arguments that purport to show that some worldview or metaphysical outlook is rationally incompatible with cognitive self-trust. Other recent and ongoing work explores ethical concerns posed by the prospect of artificial general intelligence.
You can see the whole interview here.
