Return to Reason / / Stephen Toulmin.
The turmoil and brutality of the twentieth century have made it increasingly difficult to maintain faith in the ability of reason to fashion a stable and peaceful world. After the ravages of global conflict and a Cold War that divided the world's loyalties, how are we to master our doubts and f...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Rationality and Certainty
- 2 How Reason Lost Its Balance
- 3 The Invention of Disciplines
- 4 Economics, or the Physics That Never Was
- 5 The Dreams of Rationalism
- 6 Rethinking Method
- 7 Practical Reason and the Clinical Arts
- 8 Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
- 9 The Trouble with Disciplines
- 10 Redressing the Balance
- 11 The Varieties of Experience
- 12 The World of Where and When
- 13 Postscript: Living with Uncertainty
- Notes
- Index