Research Catalog

Title

The edge of reason : a rational skeptic in an irrational world / Julian Baggini.

Author

Baggini, Julian

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016.

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Description

pages cm

Summary

"Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally admired faculty. Rationality and reason have become political, disputed concepts, subject to easy dismissal. Julian Baggini argues eloquently that we must recover our reason and reassess its proper place, neither too highly exalted nor completely maligned. Rationality does not require a sterile, scientistic worldview, it simply involves the application of critical thinking wherever thinking is needed. Addressing such major areas of debate as religion, science, politics, psychology, and economics, the author calls for commitment to the notion of a "community of reason," where disagreements are settled by debate and discussion, not brute force or political power. His insightful book celebrates the power of reason, our best hope--indeed our only hope--for dealing with the intractable quagmires of our time"--

Subject

• Reason
• Rationalism
• PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Rationalism
• PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
• PHILOSOPHY / Criticism

Call Number

JFD 16-5462

ISBN

• 9780300208238
• 0300208235

LCCN

2016009433

OCLC

2016009433

Author

Baggini, Julian, author.

Title

The edge of reason : a rational skeptic in an irrational world / Julian Baggini.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JFD 16-5462