The vaunted human capacity for reason may have more to do with winning arguments than with thinking straight. In “The Enigma of Reason” scientists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber attempted to make the point that reason is an evolved trait,…
The vaunted human capacity for reason may have more to do with winning arguments than with thinking straight. In “The Enigma of Reason” scientists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber attempted to make the point that reason is an evolved trait,…