Steven Pinker’s Half-Hearted Defense of Rationality
The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
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Pinker's the Human Cognitive Apparatus
Tinker: The book has a very clear and accessible presentation of some basic logical fallacies. He also does a good job framing that literature in the context of, well, yes, we can make these mistakes, but we don't have to. And when people are given the right kind of context, they often are able to get their way out of these kinds of fallacies. Nohe es optimistic about our capacity to get out of them,. he shares in common with many of the great enlightenment thinkers on the subject of reason.
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