Scottish philosopher at the University of Liverpool. Likes to do philosophy by reading about things that are more interesting than philosophy. Some sort of social epistemologist.
https://robinmckenna.weebly.com/
Robin McKenna
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glad to be finished with parental leave because it means I can return to the thing I really love: emailing students to inform them they have been accused of misusing AI in a recent assignment and asking them if they did it or not.
New Substack piece where I argue for the need to give symmetrical explanations of political beliefs--you can't explain the ones you don't like by saying they serve some psychological or social need and the ones you like by saying they just reflect the evidence.
open.substack.com/pub/rbnmcken...
“The problem is when you try to have it both ways: the elegance of traditional philosophy directed at real-world problems. If the result is elegant, it won’t help you understand the problem. If it helps you understand the problem, it probably won’t be very elegant.”
Why the study of political belief keeps flattering the people doing it—and how to fix this
