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(Ep 10) - Book Club: The enigma of reason

Scott H Young Podcast

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What Is the Function of Reason?

Psychologists Sperve and Mercier contrast two views of the function of reason. They argue that sole reasoning, reasoning about problems on your own is not the domain offunction of reason. It's supposed biases in this context are actually functional when you consider how it is supposed to operate. This particular critique is a radical re-shifting of the view of what reason is for"

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