Recent best-selling books by cognitive psychologists point toward a thesis of human irrationality — a claim that hasn’t greeted with enough critical analysis by political philosophers.
If you took the three-question quiz linked here last week, chances are you answered some items incorrectly. I argue today that the human capacity for reason may be fragile and partial but is not belied by studies in which large percentages of subjects answer a few tricky questions incorrectly.
http://bigthink.com/praxis/why-failing-the-rationality-quiz-shouldnt-alarm-you
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