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James Evans

Institute Participation
2023

Institutional Affiliation

University of Chicago

Academic Department

Sociology

Research Focus

My research focuses on the collective system of thinking and knowing, ranging from the distribution of attention and intuition, the origin of ideas and shared habits of reasoning to processes of agreement (and dispute), accumulation of certainty (and doubt), and the texture—novelty, ambiguity, topology—of understanding.

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