A01=Eleanor Gordon-Smith
Author_Eleanor Gordon-Smith
Belief revision
Category=QD
Cognitive bias
Decision-making
Emotional reasoning
Epistemology
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Ethics
Identity
Moral psychology
Narrative self
Personal transformation
Persuasion
Philosophy of mind
Rationality
Reason vs emotion
Skepticism
Social discourse
Testimonial injustice
Testimony
Transformative experience
Trust
Product details
- ISBN 9781742235875
- Dimensions: 135 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2019
- Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Paperback
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What if you're not who you think you are?
What if you don't really know the people closest to you?
And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be…wrong?
In Stop Being Reasonable, philosopher Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells gripping true stories that show the limits of human reason. Susie realises her husband harbours a terrible secret, Dylan leaves the cult he's been raised in since birth, Alex discovers he can no longer return to his former identity after impersonating someone else on reality TV. All of them radically alter their beliefs about the things that matter most.
What makes them change course? What does this say about our own beliefs? And, in an increasingly divided world, what does it teach us about how we might change the minds of others?
Inspiring, moving and perceptive, Stop Being Reasonable is a mind-changing exploration of the murky place where philosophy and real life meet.
What if you don't really know the people closest to you?
And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be…wrong?
In Stop Being Reasonable, philosopher Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells gripping true stories that show the limits of human reason. Susie realises her husband harbours a terrible secret, Dylan leaves the cult he's been raised in since birth, Alex discovers he can no longer return to his former identity after impersonating someone else on reality TV. All of them radically alter their beliefs about the things that matter most.
What makes them change course? What does this say about our own beliefs? And, in an increasingly divided world, what does it teach us about how we might change the minds of others?
Inspiring, moving and perceptive, Stop Being Reasonable is a mind-changing exploration of the murky place where philosophy and real life meet.
