The Enigma of Reason /

The Enigma of Reason / / Dan Sperber, Hugo Mercier.

Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If reason is so useful, why didn’t it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why do we produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense? In their groundbreaking account of the evolution and workings o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Mercier, Hugo,
Sperber, Dan,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]
©2017
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: A Double Enigma
  • I. Shaking Dogma
  • 1. Reason on Trial
  • 2. Psychologists’ Travails
  • II. Understanding Inference
  • 3. From Unconscious Inferences to Intuitions
  • 4. Modularity
  • 5. Cognitive Opportunism
  • 6. Metarepresentations
  • III. Rethinking Reason
  • 7. How We Use Reasons
  • 8. Could Reason Be a Module?
  • 9. Reasoning: Intuition and Reflection
  • 10. Reason: What Is It For?
  • IV. What Reason Can and Cannot Do
  • 11. Why Is Reasoning Biased?
  • 12. Quality Control: How We Evaluate Arguments
  • 13. The Dark Side of Reason
  • 14. A Reason for Everything
  • 15. The Bright Side of Reason
  • V. Reason in the Wild
  • 16. Is Human Reason Universal?
  • 17. Reasoning about Moral and Political Topics
  • 18. Solitary Geniuses?
  • Conclusion: In Praise of Reason after All
  • Notes
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

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