Why Facts Don T Change Our Minds Elizabeth Kolbert

Finally I will refer to two interesting ideas presented in an article of Elizabeth Kolbert in “Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds”.1 She refer to Sloman and Fernbach that claim: sociability is the key to understand how the human mind functions. We never think alone, our thinking is heavely influenced by others.2 Previously in her article, she referred to Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber3 and wrote: “reason is an evolved trait, like bipedalism or three-color vision. It emerged on the savannas of Africa, and has to be understood in that context. .. Reason developed not to enable us to solve abstract, logical problems or even to help us draw conclusions from unfamiliar data; rather, it developed to resolve the problems posed by living in collaborative