‘Stop Being Reasonable: Six stories of how we really change our minds’, by Eleanor Gordon-Smith

Review by Reg Naulty

by Reg Naulty 26th July 2019

At the end of anti-religious polemics, there is often the conclusion ‘since there is no evidence for religious belief, you shouldn’t have any – if you do, you’re irrational,’ as though that were straightforward. One is interested to find, at the end of her book about being rational, Eleanor Gordon-Smith concludes ‘that rationality itself may turn out to be as tangled, as knotty, and as rooted in reality as the minds it hopes to change.’