#1048 Mona Simion: Why Do People Resist Evidence?
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Mona Simeon. She is professor of philosophy and director of the Cognito Epistemology Research Center at the University of Glasgow. And today we're talking about her book, Resistance to Evidence.
So Dr. Simeon, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone. Thanks so much for having me. So let's start perhaps with
a basic question here. So could you start by telling us what resistance to evidence is, what it means, and uh as a philosopher, why do you think we need a philosophical account of this sort of phenomenon? Yeah, so I mean I think that what's important to note when you look in the landscape of people resisting scientific evidence is that Epistemologically, it's a very complicated landscape. So it's not the case that everybody who res resists scientific evidence is crazy, I guess is what I say.
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