Webcast 3: EPISTEMIC HUMILITY - MANAGING OVERCONFIDENCE
At CII's CIOs Symposium in February this year, delegates identified overconfidence as the most prevalent bias affecting key decisions in the superannuation industry, highlighting the need for collective focus and action.
Erik will share insights into why overconfidence is so pervasive, why it's hard to eliminate, and discuss science based interventions that can help us improve as individuals and, in organisations, how we can build overconfidence-proof teams.
Your presenter
ERIK ANGNER
Erik Angner is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University. His research centers on economic sciences and their relationship to ethics and social and political philosophy. Professor Angner attained two PhDs from the University of Pittsburgh: one in History and Philosophy of Science and one in Economics. His work consists of multiple components – philosophical, historical, sociological, and empirical – which are continuous with each other. The historical work serves as a means to uncover assumptions that go into economists’ and philosophers’ arguments. The empirical work informs his philosophical, historical, and sociological thinking. And the philosophical clarifies the assumptions that underlie the writings of both historical and contemporary scientists. Professor Angner has written two books and a number of papers and book chapters published in journals of philosophy, economics, psychology, medicine, and history of science.