“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 with the intricacy and richness of the outside environment.” The irony is that, “unlike the animals,… — 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
“The environments that are the most hostile from the standpoint of rationality are those that are the most commercial.” — Joseph Heath Copy Share
“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
“One of the downsides of working in philosophy is that it attracts a lot of people with mental-health problems.” — Joseph Heath Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“As individuals, we have enormous difficulty thinking the negative. We see patterns all around us, and each new day brings new evidence that confirms… — Joseph Heath Copy Share
“if we adopted a different orientation toward the world, one that focused on liberation and freedom rather than manipulation and control, it would literally… — Joseph Heath Copy Share
“that, when it comes to humanity, “the perfection of our nature and capability of happiness, must be estimated by the degree of reason, virtue,… — Joseph Heath Copy Share
