Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: I regret to say that all too many professors of philosophy consider it their duty to be sycophants of common sense, and thus, doubtless unintentionally, to bow down in homage before the savage superstitions of cannibals. Bertrand Russell 1Revisionists standardly delude themselves into thinking that they can plausibly explain why people make the mistakes they allege.It is closer to the truth to say that such mistakes would require some highly selective and seemingly arbitrary forms of genetically or culturally transmitted idiocy.
Source: Noûs
Author: Daniel Z. Korman
Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2007291464