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The enigma of reason

by Hugo Mercier, Dan Sperber, Liam Gerrard

2017 396 pages eng

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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