Irrational rationality' means using rationality for the grand purpose of life, while intentionally allowing for irrational ...

We make various judgments every day.What to buy, which tasks to prioritize, whose opinions to adopt. Countless decisions are ...

When it comes to making sound judgements, most people understand and distinguish that being rational is self-serving and being reasonable is fair and balanced, finds new research from the University ...

Scientists from Wageningen University and Research (WUR) and Indiana University have discovered that the increasing irrelevance of factual truth in public discourse is part of a groundswell trend that ...

Suppose you toss a coin and get four heads in a row – what do you think will come up on the fifth toss? Many of us have a gut feeling that a tails is due. This feeling, called the Gambler's Fallacy, ...

When Aristotle claimed that humans differ from other animals because they have the ability to be rational, he understood rational to mean that we could form our views and beliefs based on evidence, ...

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. – John of ...

The cognitive psychologist makes perfect sense in his defence of rational thinking and why our brains often lead us astray Whether in primitive tribes or the most technologically advanced 21st-century ...

‘Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe,” the comedian George Carlin once observed, “and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. For someone who so frequently and serenely proclaims that he’s right, Steven Pinker can get ...