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The Roots of Reason - Philosophical Essays on Rationality, Evolution, and Probability (Paperback, New ed)
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The Roots of Reason - Philosophical Essays on Rationality, Evolution, and Probability (Paperback, New ed)
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David Papineau presents a controversial view of human reason,
portraying it as a normal part of the natural world, and drawing on
the empirical sciences to illuminate its workings. In these six
interconnected essays he offers a fresh approach to some
long-standing problems. Papineau rejects the contemporary orthodoxy
that genuine thought hinges on some species of non-natural
normativity. He explores the evolutionary histories of theoretical
and practical rationality, indicating ways in which capacities
underlying human reasoning have been selected for their biological
advantages. He then looks at the connection between decision and
probability, explaining how good decisions need to be informed by
causal as well as probabilistic facts. Finally he defends the
radical view that a satisfactory understanding of decision-making
is only possible within a specific interpretation of quantum
mechanics. By placing the subject in its scientific context,
Papineau shows how human rationality plays an explicable role in
the functioning of the natural world.
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