TY - BOOK ID - 77868919 TI - The roots of reason PY - 2006 SN - 1280756241 0191529494 0191516082 1429422106 9780191529498 9780191516085 9780199288717 0199288712 9781280756245 0199288712 0199243840 9780199243846 PB - Oxford Oxford New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy of mind. KW - Naturalism. KW - Reason. KW - Mind KW - Intellect KW - Rationalism KW - Materialism KW - Mechanism (Philosophy) KW - Philosophy KW - Positivism KW - Science KW - Mind, Philosophy of KW - Mind, Theory of KW - Theory of mind KW - Cognitive science KW - Metaphysics KW - Philosophical anthropology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77868919 AB - 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 discusses both theoretical and practical rationality, and shows how evolutionary theory, decision theory, and quantum mechanics offer fresh approaches to some long-standing problems. - ;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 i ER -