The Enigma of Reason

by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber

Book Overview

"Brilliant...Timely and necessary." --Financial Times

"Especially timely as we struggle to make sense of how it is that individuals and communities persist in holding beliefs that have been thoroughly discredited."
--Darren Frey, Science

If reason is what makes us human, why do we behave so irrationally? And if it is so useful, why didn't it evolve in other animals? This groundbreaking account of the evolution of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067423782X
• ISBN13: 9780674237827
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 9.0"