Domain: Philosophy of science
Link: Philosophical Psychology 1989 course lecturres
Person: Paul Meehl
Background: Deep introduction to 20c philosophy of science, using psychology rather than physics as the model science—because it’s harder!
Why: Meehl was a philosopher of science, a statistician, and a lifelong clinical psychologist. He wrote a book showing that statistical prediction usually beats clinical judgement in 1954, and a paper on the replication crisis in psychology in 1978. He personally knew people like Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend, etc. and brings their insights to life in these course lectures.
This is quite interesting. It strikes me as perhaps a first-principles derivation of the theory of constructed preferences in behavioral economics.
Compare your
to Bernheim’s
Values are closely related to preferences, and preferences have been extensively studied in behavioral econ. I’ve written more on the connection between AI and behavioral econ here.