“The idea that people could get along fine with just markets, and no government, turned out to rest upon a version of what economists call the “compositional fallacy.” — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“The scientific method is famous for requiring objectivity and emotional detachment on the part of the investigator. Scientific experimentation also involves extensive manipulation of… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“The environments that are the most hostile from the standpoint of rationality are those that are the most commercial.” — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“The idea that people could get along fine with just markets, and no government, turned out to rest upon a version of what economists… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“One of the downsides of working in philosophy is that it attracts a lot of people with mental-health problems.” — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“There may be important things right in front of you that you aren’t noticing due to the illusion of attention. Now that you know… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“Our environment has changed so that the correlations we relied upon in the environment of evolutionary adaptation no longer obtain. This makes it so… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“More and more frequently, we will find ourselves in the position of the lower animals—with a mental apparatus that is unequipped to deal thoroughly… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“It’s all well and good to have a mountain of psychological research detailing the different ways in which we routinely fail to think and… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others,… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“our ability to enter into cooperative relations with one another is based upon the rational insight that we can all be better off if… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“Everyone always has a reason to reject a compromise, because everyone thinks that their own view is correct, their own cause is just, or… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“If you had to give a child just one piece of advice upon entering a shopping mall, a good suggestion might be “Remember that… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
