“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 conditions. When dealing with nature, this is fine, but with people it becomes problematic. “Being objective” can easily be taken to mean “treating people as objects,” emotional detachment can translate into indifference to human suffering, and… — Joseph Heath Copy Share
“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
