Why Its Ok Not to Think for Yourself Matheson Jonathan
We tend to applaud those who think for themselves: the ever-curious student, for example, or the grownup who does her own research. Even as we're applauding, however, we ourselves often don't think…
Specifikacia Why Its Ok Not to Think for Yourself Matheson Jonathan
We tend to applaud those who think for themselves: the ever-curious student, for example, or the grownup who does her own research. Even as we're applauding, however, we ourselves often don't think for ourselves. This book argues that's completely OK.In fact, it's often best just to take other folks' word for it, allowing them to do the hard work of gathering and evaluating the relevant evidence. In making this argument, philosopher Jonathan Matheson shows how "expert testimony" and "the wisdom of crowds" are tested and convincing ideas that make it rational to believe something simply because other people believe it. Matheson then takes on philosophy's best arguments against his thesis, including the idea that non-self-thinkers are free-riding on the work of others, Socrates' claim that "the unexamined life isn't worth living," and that outsourcing your intellectual
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