While considerable ink has been spilled describing how technology generally and applications such as Facebook and Twitter in particular reinforce tribalism, a curious related phenomenon has emerged ...

India, Jan. 24 -- Rationalism was meant to be a method, not an identity. It was to be the discipline of honest seeing, not another tribe of the like-minded. You question, you examine, you see clearly.

What this rational narrative overlooks, however, is that reason always includes interpretation, which is always influenced, ...

The triumph of the concept of rationalism, which lay at the center of the processes that formed our Western civilization from the 16 th century on, was not as swift or easy as it would seem to the ...

In a previous post, we considered three of seven "irrational" habits of highly rational people. Here we consider the remaining four, as well as some suggestions for distinguishing the genuinely ...

Humans are often full of uncertainties as we face life’s daily challenges. A meteorologist might tell us there’s a 60% chance of snow today, or an economist might say she’s 40% certain that a stock ...

Sophocles' Philoctetes explores the tragic clash of virtue and rationalism in a war-torn world where moral choices defy easy ...