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The Enigma of Reason - Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber

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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.

©2017 Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber (P)2017 Tantor

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Creation Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:15:29 +0000
This is a Multifile Torrent
07. How We Use Reasons.mp3 52.83 MBs
09. Reasoning - Intuition and Reflection.mp3 35.01 MBs
08. Could Reason Be a Module.mp3 33.79 MBs
16. Is Human Reason Universal.mp3 30.46 MBs
10. Reason - What Is It For.mp3 23.68 MBs
01. Reason on Trial.mp3 23.66 MBs
17. Reasoning about Moral and Political Topics.mp3 21.97 MBs
03. From Unconscious Inferences to Intuitions.mp3 21.71 MBs
06. Metarepresentations.mp3 20.81 MBs
02. Psychologists’ Travails.mp3 19.86 MBs
12. Quality Control - How We Evaluate Arguments.mp3 19.2 MBs
05. Cognitive Opportunism.mp3 18.17 MBs
11. Why Is Reasoning Biased.mp3 17.84 MBs
15. The Bright Side of Reason.mp3 16.57 MBs
18. Solitary Geniuses.mp3 16.35 MBs
00. Introduction - A Double Enigma.mp3 16.31 MBs
14. A Reason for Everything.mp3 14.44 MBs
04. Modularity.mp3 11.66 MBs
19. Conclusion - In Praise of Reason after All.mp3 10.17 MBs
13. The Dark Side of Reason.mp3 5.55 MBs
Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber - The Enigma of Reason.epub 1.28 MBs
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