Wisdom Is Messy

Jessa Crispin reviews Stephen Hall's Wisdom: From Philosophy To Neuroscience:

Wisdom is not the same as knowledge, and so it seems odd it hasattracted the attention of science. There is such a thing as "wisdomstudies" now, and in his book Hall talks to researchers andneuroscientists in a search for the latest information about wisdom.Scientists treat wisdom the way they treat anything else. They break itdown into its smallest components to identify and test, and theyattempt to figure out how...