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Return to Reason

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ISBN 9780674012356

Publication Date: 09/30/2003

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256 pages

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  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: Rationality and Certainty
  • 2. How Reason Lost Its Balance
  • 3. The Invention of Disciplines
  • 4. Economics, or the Physics That Never Was
  • 5. The Dreams of Rationalism
  • 6. Rethinking Method
  • 7. Practical Reason and the Clinical Arts
  • 8. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
  • 9. The Trouble with Disciplines
  • 10. Redressing the Balance
  • 11. The Varieties of Experience
  • 12. The World of Where and When
  • 13. Postscript: Living with Uncertainty
  • Notes
  • Index

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