Author: Gerald F. (Jerry) Smith
Gerald F. (Jerry) Smith is a retired college professor who currently serves on HumanistsMN’s Board of Directors.
Rationality without Reason?
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, by Steven Pinker (New York, NY: Random House/Penguin/Viking, 2021, ISBN 9780525561996). 432 pp. Hardcover, $32.00. Steven Pinker is one of my intellectual heroes. I have read and benefitted from his previous work on language (The Language Instinct, Words and Rules), cognition (How the Mind …