How Reason and Emotion Influence Our Decision-Making

 

What if you aren’t who you think you are? Or what if you discover you really don’t know the people closest to you, or that one of your deeply held beliefs has turned out to be wrong?

The Daily’s Julia Carr-Catzel spoke with philosopher, journalist and writer Eleanor Gordon-Smith about her new book “Stop Being Reasonable”, which argues that when it comes to working out what’s true, or convincing others about what we know, the most rational approach might involve our hearts as well as our minds.

 

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