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To the editors:
Usually sagacious, Steven Pinker writes like a philistine about faith and reason (“Less Faith, More Reason,” op-ed, Oct. 27). What is faith? Ill-founded belief, he writes, anathema to the university. What is reason? “Pure and simple.”
If only it were really so simple. Pinker writes as though philosophy were a dead letter, faith a kind of retardation, and religion a form of mass insanity. He may well believe that, but I doubt his reasons extend much beyond faith.
JASON T. CLOWER
Cambridge, Mass.
October 29, 2006
The writer is a graduate student in the Study of Religion.
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