"The rehabilitation of reason is urgent because it is only through the proper use of reason that we can find our way o…"

"Only our most intimate friends know our deepest flaws, and in the same way the greatest skeptics about reason should …"

"When you have strong desires to believe something, it is always possible to convince yourself that a decisive argumen…"

"If it seems shocking to some that scientists are not cold computers but human beings with different preferences, disp…"

"Really good philosophising requires something more than a razor-sharp brain, something that is sometimes called subtl…"

"Philosophical autobiographies do much more than simply reveal the personalities and prejudices of their authors, howe…"

"That is why there can be no one account that is ‘the truth’, not because ‘truth’ is beyond us. We need to distinguish…"

"Many are now skeptical of Freud’s theory – and of psychoanalysis in general – but the broad idea that the unconscious…"

"As I suggested at the opening of this part of the book, to avoid hubris we ought to think of this beast as more like …"

"If the house on the lake can become a new iteration of a philosophical retreat, that would pay homage to its first ow…"