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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Tag: Reason & rationality
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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The Hume Paradox
How great philosophy leads to dismal politics
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