The enigma of reason

Author(s)

• Mercier, Hugo
• Sperber, Dan

Bibliographic Information

The enigma of reason

Hugo Mercier, Dan Sperber

Harvard University Press, 2017

• : [hardcover]

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-382) and index

Contents of Works

• Introduction: A double enigma
• Part I. Shaking dogma: Reason on trial
• Psychologists' travails
• Part II. Understanding inference: From unconscious inferences to intuitions
• Modularity
• Cognitive opportunism
• Metarepresentations
• Part III. Rethinking reason: How we use reasons
• Could reason be a module?
• Reasoning : intuition and reflection
• Reason : what is it for?
• Part IV. What reason can and cannot do
• Why is reasoning biased?
• Quality control : how we evaluate arguments
• The dark side of reason
• A reason for everything
• The bright side of reasoning
• Part V. Reason in the wild: Is human reason universal?
• Reasoning about moral and political topics
• Solitary geniuses?
• Conclusion: In praise of reason after all

Details

• NCID: BB24888364
• ISBN:
  • 9780674368309
• LCCN: 2016050637
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 396 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B833
  • DC23 : 128/.33
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Reason
  • LCSH : Reason -- Social aspects