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Author: Edward Stein (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Yale University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.40cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.40cm
Weight: 0.518kg
ISBN: 9780198235743
ISBN 10: 0198235747
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 11 January 1996
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The whole book is written in a clear, lively and enjoyable style. It is carefully-argued throughout ... it is an excellent attempt at a synoptic cognitivist account of the philosophical implications of the experimental investigation of human rationality. I strongly recommend it to lecturers and students of the philosophy of mind and cognition as the best comprehensive survey of the literature on rationality. John Preston, University of Reading This book's very considerable value is for professionals, on account of both style and content J. D. Kenyon, Times Higher Education Supplement The book contains a particularly clear apraisal - the best in the literature, I thought - of arguments for the rationality thesis from the principle of Charity . (C. 4), as well as a careful, thorough and sophisticated examination of the arguments which portray the rationality thesis as the ... outcome of evolution by natural selection ... The whole book is written in a clear, lively and enjoyable style. It is carefully-argued throughout ... I strongly recommend it to lecturers and students of the philosophy of mind and cognition as the best comprehensive survey of the literature on rationality. John Preston, Mind very clearly written and accessible book.../ Stein has provided a great many points of departure for further exploration into both sides of the central question 'Are we rational?'./ Joshua Gert, University of Illinois at Chicago, The Philosophical Quarterly, April 1999
`The whole book is written in a clear, lively and enjoyable style. It is carefully-argued throughout ... it is an excellent attempt at a synoptic cognitivist account of the philosophical implications of the experimental investigation of human rationality. I strongly recommend it to lecturers and students of the philosophy of mind and cognition as the best comprehensive survey of the literature on rationality.' John Preston, University of Reading `This book's very considerable value is for professionals, on account of both style and content' J. D. Kenyon, Times Higher Education Supplement `The book contains a particularly clear apraisal - the best in the literature, I thought - of arguments for the rationality thesis from the ""principle of Charity"". (C. 4), as well as a careful, thorough and sophisticated examination of the arguments which portray the rationality thesis as the ... outcome of evolution by natural selection ... The whole book is written in a clear, lively and enjoyable style. It is carefully-argued throughout ... I strongly recommend it to lecturers and students of the philosophy of mind and cognition as the best comprehensive survey of the literature on rationality.' John Preston, Mind very clearly written and accessible book.../ Stein has provided a great many points of departure for further exploration into both sides of the central question 'Are we rational?'./ Joshua Gert, University of Illinois at Chicago, The Philosophical Quarterly, April 1999
Stein has done a great service in bringing together all of the important arguments in the human rationality debate and providing a measured critical assessment of them....This will be an important book and is essential reading for epistemologists, philosophers of mind, and cognitive and evolutionary psychologists. --Choice<br>
