Some philosophers think that people are very often irrational. (I've encountered this view more often in conversation than in print.) I don't agree at all. I think that a view which actually addresses *human* rationality will entail that people are rarely irrational. 1/6
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This pessimism about human rationality is very old. In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, ordinary folks are depicted as pathetic creatures chained inside the cave and only able to see the shadows of real things. 2/6
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Plato's hero emerges from the darkness, enduring the pain as his eyes adjust to the dazzling light of the real world. When he looks back at his former fellow-prisoners, he pities them and their delusional "wisdom of the den". 3/6
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But Plato was wrong. A theory of rationality must instead be a theory of *human* rationality--a theory which begins with the capacities and cognitive procedures inherent in humanity. 4/6
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It must ask questions such as "how should we humans conduct ourselves if we want to form the most accurate and reliable view about the world?" and "what does it mean for human reasoning to go well/poorly?". 5/6
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The old, idealized notion of rationality (along with its history of elitism, sexism, racism, etc.) should be abandoned. 6/6
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