Simon Cullen is a faculty member and Artificial Intelligence and Education Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. He developed the award-winning Dangerous Ideas in Science and Society course at CMU, helping students to explore diverse viewpoints on polarizing topics by teaching them the art of constructive disagreement. His research combines philosophy, cognitive science, and educational technology to improve reasoning, communication, and understanding across moral and political divides. His work has been published in Science Advances, Nature Science of Learning, Cognition, and the Review of Philosophy and Psychology. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and has a background in reasoning pedagogy, psychology of reasoning, and philosophy of cognitive science.
Simon Cullen
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Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
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The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham
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