The Enigma of Reason

by Hugo Mercier, Dan Sperber

ISBN-13:9780674368309
ISBN-10:0674368304
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Binding:Hardcover
Publication Year:2017
Edition, printing:First, 1st

Condition: Good – text appears to be clean, unmarked

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Contents:
Introduction: A Double Enigma
I Shaking Dogma
1 Reason on Trail
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


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