Hugo Mercier is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), working in the Cognitive Science Institute Marc Jeannerod in Lyon.
Dan Sperber is a researcher in the Departments of Cognitive Science and of Philosophy at the Central European University, Budapest, and in the Institut Jean Nicod at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If reason is so useful, why didn’t it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why do we produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense? In their groundbreaking account of the evolution and workings of reason, Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber set out to solve this double enigma. Reason, they argue with a compelling mix of real-life and experimental evidence, is not geared to solitary use, to arriving at better beliefs and decisions on our own. What reason does, rather, is help us justify our beliefs and actions to others, convince them through argumentation, and evaluate the justifications and arguments that others address to us.
In other words, reason helps humans better exploit their uniquely rich social environment. This interactionist interpretation explains why reason may have evolved and how it fits with other cognitive mechanisms. It makes sense of strengths and weaknesses that have long puzzled philosophers and psychologists—why reason is biased in favor of what we already believe, why it may lead to terrible ideas and yet is indispensable to spreading good ones.
Ambitious, provocative, and entertaining, The Enigma of Reason will spark debate among psychologists and philosophers, and make many reasonable people rethink their own thinking.
發表於2024-12-25
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一 印象中我已經好久沒有聽到有人說“我很感性”這種滑稽的話瞭,還有一種蠢話是“我有雙重性格”。這樣寫齣來我就會感覺不安,因為看上去我擺齣瞭一種judge的姿態,即使是我沒有針對人,說“這種人很滑稽”、“這種人很蠢”,僅僅是針對這種做法。老羅教我說,要對事不對人,...
評分一 印象中我已經好久沒有聽到有人說“我很感性”這種滑稽的話瞭,還有一種蠢話是“我有雙重性格”。這樣寫齣來我就會感覺不安,因為看上去我擺齣瞭一種judge的姿態,即使是我沒有針對人,說“這種人很滑稽”、“這種人很蠢”,僅僅是針對這種做法。老羅教我說,要對事不對人,...
評分一 印象中我已經好久沒有聽到有人說“我很感性”這種滑稽的話瞭,還有一種蠢話是“我有雙重性格”。這樣寫齣來我就會感覺不安,因為看上去我擺齣瞭一種judge的姿態,即使是我沒有針對人,說“這種人很滑稽”、“這種人很蠢”,僅僅是針對這種做法。老羅教我說,要對事不對人,...
評分一 印象中我已經好久沒有聽到有人說“我很感性”這種滑稽的話瞭,還有一種蠢話是“我有雙重性格”。這樣寫齣來我就會感覺不安,因為看上去我擺齣瞭一種judge的姿態,即使是我沒有針對人,說“這種人很滑稽”、“這種人很蠢”,僅僅是針對這種做法。老羅教我說,要對事不對人,...
評分一 印象中我已經好久沒有聽到有人說“我很感性”這種滑稽的話瞭,還有一種蠢話是“我有雙重性格”。這樣寫齣來我就會感覺不安,因為看上去我擺齣瞭一種judge的姿態,即使是我沒有針對人,說“這種人很滑稽”、“這種人很蠢”,僅僅是針對這種做法。老羅教我說,要對事不對人,...
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