The Folly of Fools
The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life

the weaknesses of this book are all the more frustrating given the potentially highly important target the aims for — an understanding of how biological self-deception leads to problematic errors and biases in our daily existence. three major weaknesses keep this book from reaching its target. first,......more

A very personal, sometimes a little crazed exploration of the whole issue of self-deception from a leading and interesting evolutionary biologist. There are times when you can sense his out thereness. Indeed someone just told me he (at 70 or so) had been suspended from teaching because he started a......more

I have been trying to convince myself to write reviews for all the books read, and this is a good time as ever to get started. Trivers summarized his main thesis more or less within the first two chapters of the book, and the rest are a series of commentary based on life examples, ranging from person......more

Biologist Robert Trivers' book The Folly of Fools tells the manifest ways human beings deceive themselves, from politics and religion to science and everyday life. In the earlier portion of the book, Trivers traces the way in which self-deception involved in human beings and other animals, particula......more

La naturaleza es una mentirosa. Los animales se camuflan para cazar a otros o no ser cazados por otros. No es la excepción, sino la norma. ¿Y nosotros? Pues no sólo engañamos continuamente, sino que nos engañamos a nosotros mismos. Nos creemos mejores de lo que somos; todos creemos estar por encima......more