Review of Mercier and Sperber’s The Enigma of Reason [Book Review]
Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 31 (3):33-44 (2016)
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In The Enigma of Reason, Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber defend the proposal that reason is a specialized module which produces intuitions about reasons. Reason serves two functions: for individuals to justify their own judgments and actions to themselves and others, and to persuade others. In this review, I briefly summarize the central claims of the book, critically examine Mercier and Sperber’s arguments that reason is not a general faculty underlying our inferential abilities, and explore the pedagogical implications of their work.
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| ISBN(s) | 1093-1082 |
| DOI | 10.5840/inquiryct201631317 |
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