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Chicago Tribune Op-Ed
Empathy in the Court!
May 5, 2009

J.D.'s Psychology Today Blog:
The Greater Good

Philosophy and Psychology of Decision-Making
PHIL 179 / PSYC 279
Fall 2010 Syllabus

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Austere Realism and the Worldly Assumptions of Inferential Statistics. In M. Forbes, D. Hull, and R. Burian, eds., Philosophy of Science 1994, Volume 1, Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association; pp. 190-199. (1994)

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‹ Resurrecting “Death Taxes”: Inheritance, Redistribution, and the Science of Happiness (with Shahid Buttar as second author). Journal of Law and Politics, 16(4), 765-847. (2000) up A Restriction Maybe, but is it Paternalism? Cognitive Bias and Choosing Governmental Decision Aids. NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, 2(3), 455-469. (2007) ›
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About J.D.

J.D. Trout is a Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Loyola University Chicago, and Adjunct Professor at the Parmly Sensory Sciences Institute. He received his PhD in Philosophy at Cornell University in 1988, and has also taught at Bryn Mawr College and Virginia Tech. His chief interests include the nature of scientific explanation, the psychology of human judgment, scientific realism and intellectual progress, and social/political issues bearing on well-being. He has also published work in epistemology and experimental and theoretical work in spoken language processing.