Professor: Reason Itself Is A White Male Construct http://trib.al/jSjtDC1
@atduskgreg there's a loooooooong path from accepting that our ape nature constrains how we reason to specializing it to white-male apes
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@vgr but not to recognizing that how we talk about and use “reason” has a history. Multiple competing histories, actually, across cultures. -
@atduskgreg the claim that it is white-male-Christian is silly because there's a non-human mathematical reality under consideration - 27 more replies
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@vgr@atduskgreg all too often, "reason" is defined very narrowly, and that's probably what the professor is thinking of -
@vgr@atduskgreg take for instance the tacit assumption, or sometimes explicit, especially in economics, that rationality = greed - 3 more replies
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