Rationality Tagged Episodes

May 7, 2023

Philosophy usually suggests a striving for rationality and objectivity. But the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard…

July 21, 2019

Have you ever avoided stepping on a crack, just in case you might break your…

June 17, 2018

A teenager decides, on a whim, to conceive a child. Even though we might say…

May 20, 2018

We like to think of ourselves as rational agents who exercise conscious control over most…

December 25, 2016

There is an element of risk – either to ourselves or to others – in…

April 19, 2015

With the recent global economic crisis, many people wonder if our economic policies are built…

January 18, 2015

Morality tells us how we ought to behave, if we want to do the right…

January 19, 2014

Religions rely on miracles to demonstrate the authenticity of figures thought to have supernatural powers. …

November 11, 2012

Sometimes people who seem to be your epistemic peers – that is, people as experienced,…

July 25, 2010

When we make decisions we think we’re in control, making rational choices. But are we?…

May 30, 2010

What is a promise: a prediction?  A statement of intention?  Is promising rational?  Does it…

August 2, 2009

Does faith obscure reason? Does reason obscure faith? Or perhaps their subject matters are different.…

April 27, 2008

Rabbis and Talmudic scholars have spent centuries puzzling over theology, texts, and life.  In the…

August 26, 2007

Taking human life is wrong. But what if it is one’s own life? Is suicide…

April 12, 2005

Rolling the dice in a game you’re rigged to lose sounds like a bad idea.…

June 29, 2004

Some psychologists claim to have demonstrated that humans are systematically, deeply and perhaps irredeemably irrational…