November, 2006

Why Not Irrationality?

by Bryan Caplan
The Conversation
November 20th, 2006

In his original reply, Jeff faulted me for failing to pay attention to how people actually form beliefs and fall into error. But now he’s switched to the much stronger claim that the very idea of irrationality is somehow philosophically incoherent: To call people’s emotional attachment to religious beliefs irrational, then Caplan has to assume [...]

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Truth Isn’t Self-Evident; Mistake Isn’t Deliberate

by Jeffrey Friedman
The Conversation
November 20th, 2006

Caplan and I agree that markets are better than democracy. The reason I support markets is that they don’t rely on anyone having sound theoretical knowledge of the sort that seems to be so scarce among both the economically illiterate masses and the highly educated elites. Caplan and I disagree, then, about whether rule by [...]

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