Reason is the faculty through which we make logical sense of the world, and is a central part of what makes us human. This has been the settled position of many great thinkers over the centuries: the ...

In a fascinating new paper in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences titled "Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory," Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber offer the hypothesis that ...

If reason is what makes us human then why do we humans often behave so irrationally Taking us from desert ants to Aristotle cognitive psychologists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber explore how our flawed ...

There is a new blog some readers might find of interest, Culture and Cognition. Dan Sperber, who did a 10 questions nearly 3 years ago, is a contributor. Imagine, what if cultural anthropology was ...

In 2011, Dan Sperber and Hugo Mercier, two French social cognitive scientists, published a paper that stirred the scientific world, fundamentally altering the way leaders should solve problems and ...