"Reason" Tagged Content
To Address the Problem of Guns, We Need Both Data And Emotion
To lessen gun deaths, we need to truly feel our fear and anger. And then we need to be able to do research on potential effective ways to do so, even in our current political climate.
Religion is Intuitive – Religion, Belief and Social Connections, Part 1
Jonathan Morgan and Connor Wood discuss their new research about religion, cognitive styles, and intuition.
Why We Should Value — But Not Worship — Reason
A “reasonable” person killed three people — and that fact should scare any of us who think pure rationality can make our world better.
Why Can Judaism Embrace Science So Easily?
While some people think of science and religion as being inherently in conflict, I think it’s because they tend to define “religion” as “blind acceptance and complete certainty about silly, superstitious fantasies.” Quite honestly, if that’s what religion really was, I wouldn’t be religious! In fact, it’s not “religion” in general, but that particular definition of religion that is so often in conflict with science. Instead, my experience with Judaism has been that it embraces science quite easily. So why is that?