In a world where natural selection has shaped adaptations of astonishing ingenuity, what is
the scope and unique power of rational thinking? In this short but wide-ranging book …

Why do three out of four professional football players go bankrupt? How can illiterate jungle
dwellers pass a test that tricks Harvard philosophers? And why do billionaires work so hard …

From one of America's best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about
evolution that shows “why, in light of our origins, humans are still special”(Edward J. Larson …

Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If
reason is so useful, why didn't it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why …

I shall focus this discussion on one small thread in the increasingly complex weave of
artificial intelligence (AI) and philosophy of mind: the attempt to explain how rational thought …

During the last 25 years, researchers studying human reasoning and judgment in what has
become known as the “heuristics and biases” tradition have produced an impressive body of …

How does God think? How, ideally, does a human mind function? Must a gap remain
between these two paradigms of rationality? Such questions exercised the greatest ancient …

It has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most
godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs …

Since the dawn of time, humankind's singular ability to make decisions has allowed human
beings to face innumerable environmental challenges and complex evolutionary dynamics …

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection unifies the world of physics with the world of
meaning and purpose by proposing a deeply counterintuitive “inversion of …