Tag: intuition
A Child’s Intuition of Purpose in Nature Is No Accident
In 1929, child psychologist Jean Piaget called children “artificialists” who tend to regard everything as “the product of human creation.”
Why Certainty Doesn’t Always Require Accuracy — A $5 Lesson in Probability
As our dialogue continues, I think I’m starting to understand your position more clearly.
The End of Morality
Recently, David Brooks published a column titled “The End of Philosophy” in The New York Times (April 7, 2009). Brooks, long one of the most thoughtful writers in public life, addresses an ages-old tension over whether reason controls our moral intuitions and passions, or whether moral intuition/feeling is king and reason is only rationalization. In the latter view, Brooks says,