October 3, 2008
Revolutionary Ideas on How People Reason
To the Editor:
The answer to your article "Who Framed George Lakoff?" (The Chronicle Review, August 15) is its author, Evan R. Goldstein, who mischaracterized my recent book, The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics With an 18th-Century Brain.
The book surveys results from the cognitive and brain sciences over the past several decades indicating that the way people really reason is radically different from the old Enlightenment account of
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