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The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding - Softcover

Sperber, Dan; Mercier, Hugo

 
9780241957851: The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241957850 ISBN 13: 9780241957851
Verlag: Penguin, 2018

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If reason is what makes us human, then why do we humans often behave so irrationally? Taking us from desert ants to Aristotle, cognitive psychologists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber explore how our 'flawed superpower' of reason works, how it doesn't, and how it evolved to help us develop as social beings.

'Original and provocative ... likely to have a big impact on our understanding of ourselves' Steven Pinker

'Brilliant, elegant and compelling ... turns reason's weaknesses into strengths, arguing that its supposed flaws are actually design features that work remarkably well ... A timely and necessary book' Julian Baggini, Financial Times

'Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber have solved one of the most important and longstanding puzzles in psychology' Jonathan Haidt

'Reason is more likely to confirm things that we want to be true, or which we already believe. So why does it exist? This book provides the answer' Alex Dean, Prospect

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Hugo Mercier (Author)
Hugo Mercier is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, working in the Cognitive Science Institute Marc Jeannerod in Lyon.

Dan Sperber (Author)
Dan Sperber is a researcher in the departments of Cognitive Science and of Philosophy at the Central European University, Budapest, and in the Institut Jean Nicod at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

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Hugo Mercier (Author)

Hugo Mercier is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, working in the Cognitive Science Institute Marc Jeannerod in Lyon.



Dan Sperber (Author)

Dan Sperber is a researcher in the departments of Cognitive Science and of Philosophy at the Central European University, Budapest, and in the Institut Jean Nicod at the ¿ole Normale Sup¿eure, Paris.



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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241957850
ISBN 13 
9780241957851
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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