Review: Rationality by Steven Pinker
For all his clear thinking, Pinker still doesn’t quite understand how ambiguity and uncertainty, as well as illogicality and cognitive biases, limit the reach of rationality.
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Category: Articles & Essays
Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
Review of Kathleen Stock’s new book for The Philosophers’ Magazine.
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Why is it so hard to get rid of our books?
We are inordinately attached to these markers of ego and past selves. But in truth they can undermine — rather than underline — identity
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Nothing New Under the Sun
A long time ago, in what seems like a galaxy far, far away, a much younger version of myself would take his musty wine-red faux-velvet seat in Folkestone’s Curzon Cinema, ready to be immersed in whatever the curtains opened to reveal.
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Let’s Be Reasonable
As an ideal to aspire to, the requirement that beliefs be properly justified is entirely laudable. The problem is that Messrs. Nadler and Shapiro repeatedly overstate philosophy’s ability to help us meet this challenge and underestimate the reasons other than willful stubbornness why our reasoning often goes wrong.
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