Ra­tion­al­ity and Philosophy

A sequence by lukeprog examining the implications of rationality and cognitive science for philosophical method.

Posts (so far)

• Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy

• Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline

• How You Make Judgments: The Elephant and its Rider

• Your Evolved Intuitions

• Intuition and Unconscious Learning

• When Intuitions Are Useful

• Philosophy by Humans, 1: Concepts Don’t Work That Way

• Philosophy by Humans, 2: Living Metaphorically

• Philosophy by Humans, 3: Intuitions Aren’t Shared That Way

• Philosophy Needs to Trust Your Rationality Even Though It Shouldn’t

• Train Philosophers With Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant