SOC SCI H1F Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Rationality, William Wilberforce, Motivated Reasoning
6 Jul 2019
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The nature of reasoning: the ability of reason allows humans to, derive knowledge, make moral decisions, engage other linguistically for the purpose of persuasion and argument, faulty reasoning due to: Intervention of immature ego defense mechanisms: the engagement of confirmation biases, personality traits such as extreme narcissism, loss of emotional control, two researchers on the topic of reasoning, mercier and sperber (2017), agree with. Productive scientific reasoning: eratosthenes - he was able to calculate, with 1% error, the circumference of the earth. In summary, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex provides the interface for the positive contribution of emotion to reasoning. If the emotions are constructive, they can help us in making rational decisions, but too much will make them destructive. In other words, people often use reasoning as a means to justify what they already have concluded: human reasoning many times is guided more by beliefs and desires than logic - concluded by haidt.
