User:MartinPoulter
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- Real name: Dr Martin Poulter
- Email: m.l.poulter@bris.ac.uk
- Home page: http://www.infobomb.org/
- Location: Bristol, UK
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- BA in Philosophy & Psychology from University of Oxford, graduated 1994
- PhD in Philosophy from University of Bristol; thesis applied decision theory and Bayesian probability to questions of science and belief, degree awarded 2003
- Have been a teaching assistant in courses on Introduction to Philosophy and Introduction to Symbolic Logic at Bristol
- Occasionally give talks about logic, cognitive bias or the Scientology cult.
Currently employed by the Institute for Learning and Research Technology part-time, promoting learning in economics, especially Electronic learning. Other time is spent on academic pursuits.
My main interest is in promoting critical and scientific thinking. I am a logician by background, but I am trying to expand my expertise to include the psychology of cognitive biases, especially cognitive dissonance.
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