"Irrational Man" (2015)

Woody Allen’s latest picture is rare in that its title summarises its content perfectly. In the movie, a philosophy professor mistakes his disillusionment with moral philosophy for disillusionment with reason. He advocates following one’s gut feeling, intuition, instinct. The film illustrates how easily unchallenged gut feelings can lead to actions that are not only misguided but plainly evil.

One can be guided by intuition to form hypotheses. But one cannot ever convince another by arguing that one’s intuition is stronger than the other’s. One cannot aggregate knowledge by aggregating intuition.