The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding

Title Page......Page 3
Introduction: A Double Enigma......Page 6
I: Shaking Dogma......Page 18
1: Reason on Trial......Page 19
2: Psychologists’ Travails......Page 38
II: Understanding Inference......Page 53
3: From Unconscious Inferences to Intuitions......Page 54
4: Modularity......Page 70
5: Cognitive Opportunism......Page 78
6: Metarepresentations......Page 91
III: Rethinking Reason......Page 106
7: How We Use Reasons......Page 107
8: Could Reason Be a Module?......Page 126
9: Reasoning: Intuition and Reflection......Page 145
10: Reason: What Is It For?......Page 170
IV: What Reason Can and Cannot Do......Page 196
11: Why Is Reasoning Biased?......Page 197
12: Quality Control: How We Evaluate Arguments......Page 213
13: The Dark Side of Reason......Page 227
14: A Reason for Everything......Page 241
15: The Bright Side of Reason......Page 252
V: Reason in the Wild......Page 264
16: Is Human Reason Universal?......Page 265
17: Reasoning about Moral and Political Topics......Page 286
18: Solitary Geniuses?......Page 302
Conclusion: In Praise of Reason after All......Page 314
Notes......Page 321
References......Page 352
Illustration Credits......Page 388
Acknowledgments......Page 389
Follow Penguin......Page 391
Copyright Page......Page 392