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		<title>Moral and Political Discussion and Epistemic Networks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I got to give an International Society for Quantitative Ethnography (ISQE) Webinar on &#8220;Moral and Political Discussion and Epistemic Networks.&#8221; I really enjoyed the questions and conversation. This is the video of the whole event: Abstract: An individual holds linked beliefs about political or moral issues, which we can model as a network. How [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=25862">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>modeling a political discussion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2015, students at my university, Tufts, and at Kansas State University discussed the same topic&#8211;the social determinants of health&#8211;in online forums. Colleagues and I analyzed the text in a novel way. The underlying theory is that conversations can be modeled as networks, where the nodes are specific ideas and the links are reasons and [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=25524">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>individuals in cultures: the concept of an idiodictuon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2022 17:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In linguistics, a language is a whole system of communication used by a group, encompassing its semantics, grammar, and pragmatics. A dialect is a particular form of a language typical of a specific region. A sociolect is like a dialect, except that it is used by a dispersed social group, such as a profession or [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=25369">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>individuals’ ideologies as networks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2021 21:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hypothesis: People not only hold opinions about parties and specific issues; they also explicitly connect their various beliefs together to create more-or-less coherent logical structures. Understanding these structures yields insights about individuals that we would miss if we only knew a list of their opinions. This thesis challenges a common assumption in political and moral [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=23839">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the pivotal significance of reparations for the American left</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2020 17:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About one in four Americans supports reparations for slavery. There is a racial split on that question, with up to three in four African Americans&#8211;but only 15% of whites&#8211;in favor. If you think that justice demands reparations, you should support them. You might not make reparations your main criterion for choosing candidates in a given [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=22806">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>judgment in a world of power and institutions: outline of a view</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judgment or practical reason (i.e., deciding what is right to do) means forming beliefs about facts, values, and strategies. It is sometimes worth trying to isolate the factual beliefs in order to test them empirically. But no claims are purely &#8230; <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=22081">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>from I to we: an outline of a theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are the main ideas that I&#8217;ve defended (or plan to develop) in my theoretical scholarship. They are organized from micro to macro and from ethics to politics. As always, I put this draft online to welcome critical feedback. Each &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19762">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>what makes conversation go well (a network model)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2017 16:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m looking forward to presenting later today at&#160;NULab&#8217;s first annual conference, on the theme: &#8220;Keeping the Public Sphere Open.&#8221; I think of the &#8220;public sphere&#8221; as all the venues where people come together to share experiences, emotions, and reasons in &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=18232">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>structured moral pluralism (a proposal)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(New York) Isaiah Berlin recalled&#160;that the Russian novelists he&#160;read as boy&#160;shared with &#8220;the major figures [of philosophy], especially in the field of ethical and political thought,&#8221; a common &#8220;Platonic ideal.&#8221; This ideal implied, In the first place that, as in &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=17207">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>an alternative to Moral Foundations Theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2016 19:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Haidt&#8217;s Moral Foundations Theory is one of the most influential current approaches to moral psychology and it exemplifies certain assumptions that are pervasive in psychology more generally. I have been working lately with 18 friends and colleagues to &#8220;map&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=16998">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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