Why reason? Hugo Mercier's and Dan Sperber's The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding

By Kim Sterelny. Mind & Language, 2018

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Thanks also to the Australian Research Council for their generous grants in support of my research on the evolution of human cognition and social life.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• What Is the Function of Confirmation Bias? (2020, background): “1 3 2018), and the evolution of human reasoning (Norman 2016; Mercier and Sperber 2017; Sterelny 2018; Dutilh Novaes 2018).”
• Reflections on reflection: the nature and function of type 2 processes in dual-process theories of reasoning (2019, background): “(Mercier & Sperber, 2017, p. 112).”