"I had fun writing my recent paper, "Does effort matter for skill?" In it, I reject the idea that there's a generalizable scientific relationship between effort (or effortlessness) and skill. It's not clear that effort is empirically tractable, but even if we grant that it is, we have good evidence showing that it's highly variable within and across domains of skill."
"While researching, I couldn't help but shake the idea that our well-entrenched aesthetic and normative ideas about effort (and effortlessness) had trickled into our science and metaphysics of skill. To tease out these commitments, I watched movies such as Rocky and Moneyball and read non-academic publications such as Vogue to understand everyday notions about effort and effortlessness. It was an interesting and dynamic writing process."
Intersections of Philosophy and Cognitive Science focus on skill and expertise, joint action and collective intentionality, collective intelligence, and labor and skill in the workplace. The claim that effort (or effortlessness) correlates consistently with skill is rejected, with the conclusion that effort may be empirically intractable and shows high variability within and across domains. Aesthetic and normative assumptions about effort influence scientific and metaphysical accounts of skill. Everyday notions of effort were examined through films like Rocky and Moneyball and non-academic publications such as Vogue. Personal priorities include developing photographic memory to retain names, places, songs, and papers. Major accomplishments include securing a supportive academic position and contributing to political organizing efforts.
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