Benny Markovitch, Author at Areo

Thinking With Hypotheses: Better Reasoning for a Storytelling Species

Humans are a storytelling species. We explain concepts using analogous stories; we automatically assign meaning and purpose to patterns; and we find anecdotes particularly moving. Our heuristics—the rules of thumb…

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7 min

Politics

Israel: Toxic Church-State Relations and the Necessity of Secularism

When it was formed in 1948, Israel was declared a place for the world’s Jews to call home after almost two millennia of Jewish exile and persecution and the recent…

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7 min

Politics

How Religious Arguments Cheat in the Marketplace of Ideas

While the separation of church and state is a norm in many western societies, it is often inadequately upheld in the marketplace of ideas. Claims that the country is a…

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7 min

Psychology

Are We Too Irrational for Rawls’ Veil of Ignorance?

The veil of ignorance, proposed in John Rawls’ 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, is a key concept in the liberal pursuit of a just society. Rawls suggests that, when…

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Benny Markovitch

Thinking With Hypotheses: Better Reasoning for a Storytelling Species

Israel: Toxic Church-State Relations and the Necessity of Secularism

How Religious Arguments Cheat in the Marketplace of Ideas

Are We Too Irrational for Rawls’ Veil of Ignorance?

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