We are Minnesota State University Moorhead students in a practical reasoning class where we learn about arguments and the various fallacies that go along with them. The letter mentioned below was used ...

When I was young, I was transfixed by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! As I viewed and reviewed the drawings that appeared in the newspaper, I learned about a great many jaw-dropping oddities. But of all ...

The conjunction and disjunction fallacies are famous for revealing the limits of human reasoning about probability. This can be measured by telling people a short story about a character and then ...

In an era of “post-truth” and “truthiness,” it can be hard to defend the common-sense belief that reality exists independently of how people think about it. Skepticism about reality comes in many ...

This post is a review of Rationality: What It Is. Why It Seems Scarce. Why It Matters. By Steven Pinker. Viking. 432 pp. $32. Forty-two percent of Americans believe in possession by the devil.