Neil Levy is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He was previously a Research Council Future Fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. He works on the philosophy of agency and ethical issues in neuroscience, as well as related areas, and has published extensively on these topics. He is the author of Consciousness and Moral Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Hard Luck (Oxford University Press, 2011), among other books.

The thesis of this curious text is that humans are rational animals who all too often live in an epistemically polluted environment... The text is succinct, substantive, provocative, and timely; the footnotes, references, and index are excellent.

• Preface: Rational Social Animals Go Wild 1: What Should We Believe About Belief? 2: Culturing Belief 3: How Our Minds are Made Up 4: Dare to Think? 5: Epistemic Pollution 6: Nudging Well Concluding Thoughts: Rational Animals After All

Neil Levy is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He was previously a Research Council Future Fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. He works on the philosophy of agency and ethical issues in neuroscience, as well as related areas, and has published extensively on these topics. He is the author of Consciousness and Moral Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Hard Luck (Oxford University Press, 2011), among other books.

The thesis of this curious text is that humans are rational animals who all too often live in an epistemically polluted environment... The text is succinct, substantive, provocative, and timely; the footnotes, references, and index are excellent.

• Preface: Rational Social Animals Go Wild 1: What Should We Believe About Belief? 2: Culturing Belief 3: How Our Minds are Made Up 4: Dare to Think? 5: Epistemic Pollution 6: Nudging Well Concluding Thoughts: Rational Animals After All

Neil Levy is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He was previously a Research Council Future Fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. He works on the philosophy of agency and ethical issues in neuroscience, as well as related areas, and has published extensively on these topics. He is the author of Consciousness and Moral Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Hard Luck (Oxford University Press, 2011), among other books.

The thesis of this curious text is that humans are rational animals who all too often live in an epistemically polluted environment... The text is succinct, substantive, provocative, and timely; the footnotes, references, and index are excellent.

• Preface: Rational Social Animals Go Wild 1: What Should We Believe About Belief? 2: Culturing Belief 3: How Our Minds are Made Up 4: Dare to Think? 5: Epistemic Pollution 6: Nudging Well Concluding Thoughts: Rational Animals After All