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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Mercier, Hugo, author.     Subjects     Reason.     Reason -- Social aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mercier, Hugo, author.       by title:      The enigma of reason...         MARC Display

The enigma of reason / Hugo Mercier, Dan Sperber. by Mercier, Hugo, author. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017. Subjects Reason.   Reason -- Social aspects. ISBN:  9780674368309 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 0674368304 (hardcover : alkaline paper) Description:  vi, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents:  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 reason -- 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  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 of reason, Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber set out to solve this double enigma. Reason, they argue with a compelling mix of real-life and experimental evidence, is not geared to solitary use, to arriving at better beliefs and decisions on our own. What reason does, rather, is help us justify our beliefs and actions to others, convince them through argumentation, and evaluate the justifications and arguments that others address to us. In other words, reason helps humans better exploit their uniquely rich social environment. This interactionist interpretation explains why reason may have evolved and how it fits with other cognitive mechanisms. It makes sense of strengths and weaknesses that have long puzzled philosophers and psychologists--why reason is biased in favor of what we already believe, why it may lead to terrible ideas and yet is indispensable to spreading good ones.--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 128.33 Me Transit Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 128.33 Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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