- Introduction: A Double Enigma
- I. Shaking Dogma
- 1. Reason on Trial
- 2. Psychologists’ Travails
- II. Understanding Inference
- 3. From Unconscious Inferences to Intuitions
- 4. Modularity
- 5. Cognitive Opportunism
- 6. Metarepresentations
- III. Rethinking Reason
- 7. How We Use Reasons
- 8. Could Reason Be a Module?
- 9. Reasoning: Intuition and Reflection
- 10. Reason: What Is It For?
- IV. What Reason Can and Cannot Do
- 11. Why Is Reasoning Biased?
- 12. Quality Control: How We Evaluate Arguments
- 13. The Dark Side of Reason
- 14. A Reason for Everything
- 15. The Bright Side of Reason
- V. Reason in the Wild
- 16. Is Human Reason Universal?
- 17. Reasoning about Moral and Political Topics
- 18. Solitary Geniuses?
- Conclusion: In Praise of Reason after All
- Notes
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration Credits
- Index
The Enigma of Reason
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