Room for Doubt: Siri Hustvedt Takes on the Mind-Body Problem

Novelist and social critic Siri Hustvedt takes aim at our dogmas in her essay “Delusions of Certainty” from her collection of nonfiction pieces A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind. In this sprawling essay, she explores the way doubt and skepticism go out the window when we’re being told what we want to hear about life, intelligence, technology and society.