Public Biography
Dr. Arthur Goode is a senior research fellow at the Center for Computational Epistemology at Carnegie Mellon University, where his work focuses on automated reasoning evaluation, formal argumentation theory, and what he calls “the empirical study of how often people are simply wrong.” He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy with a specialization in logic from Princeton University and a master’s degree in computer science from MIT.
Dr. Goode has served as a peer reviewer for more than a dozen artificial intelligence research programs and has testified before Congress twice on the cognitive benchmarking of AI systems, an experience he described in a 2024 faculty newsletter as “illuminating, in the direction of despair.”
He is the author of A Practical Guide to Recognizing Bad Arguments (MIT Press, 2021), which was praised for its clarity and assigned reading in several undergraduate logic courses. A second edition is in preparation. Dr. Goode has noted that the manuscript has grown by forty pages since the 2020 election cycle.