Author: Phil Roberts, Jr.Phil Roberts, Jr.
Date: Jul 16, 2008 10:10
Proposal for `Continuing Commentary' on the L. Jonathan Cohen
symposium, 'Can Human Irrationality Be Experimentally Demonstrated?',
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4:317-70, 6:487-583, 7:735-38,
10:311-13.
Doubts about "the standard picture"
If one assumes, as I do (2006), that feelings of worthlessness are a
maladaptive byproduct of the evolution of rationality, then it
seems to follow that what Edward Stein (1996) has referred to
as "the...
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