Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, The Enigma of Reason

Authors

  • Bryon Cunningham Alliant International University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.37950

Keywords:

cognitive science, argumentative theory

Abstract

Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, The Enigma of Reason (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017). 396 pp. $29.95 (hbk). ISBN: 978-0-67436-830-9.

Author Biography

  • Bryon Cunningham, Alliant International University

    Bryon Cunningham's research interests include metascientific issues common to the biological, cognitive, and cultural sciences, such as the nature of scientific explanation, the role of mechanisms in scientific theories, and the merits and limits of interlevel reductionism in scientific investigation.

References

Mercier, H., and D. Sperber. 2011. “Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34(2): 57–74. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X10000968

Kahneman, D. 2011. Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Zhang, J., and V. L. Patel. 2006. “Distributed Cognition, Representation, and Affordance”. Pragmatics & Cognition 14(2): 333–41. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.14.2.12zha

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Published

2019-10-14

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017)

Section

Book Reviews

How to Cite

Cunningham, B. (2019). Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, The Enigma of Reason. Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 4(2), 277-282. https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.37950