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The Edge of Reason : A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Yale University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300222081
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Edge of ReasonDDC classification:
  • 128.33
LOC classification:
  • BC177 .B189 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: THE JUDGE -- chapter one The Eternal God argument -- 1. Big pictures, broad brushes -- 2. Choose your bedrock -- 3. The holism of reason -- 4. Between a rock and hard node -- 5. Reason as apologetics -- 6. The dim light of reason -- chapter two Science for humans -- 1. Fitting the facts -- 2. Scientific method -- 3. The feeling of truth -- 4. The impurity of science -- chapter three Rationality and judgement -- 1. Philosophy's dirty secret -- 2. Logic and judgement -- 3. The constraints of logic -- 4. Scarce deductions -- PART II: THE GUIDE -- chapter four Lives of the mind -- 1. The thinker and the thought -- 2. The stories of our lives -- chapter five The challenge of psychology -- 1. Hot heads -- 2. Not so fast -- 3. Gendered reason -- 4. One- trick ponies -- chapter six Guided by reason -- 1. Objectivity -- 2. Five characteristics of the objective -- 3. The boundaries of the rational -- 4. Rational catholicism -- 5. Ending the truth wars -- PART III: THE MOTIVATOR -- chapter seven Rational morality -- 1. Rationally bound ethics -- 2. Whose reasons? -- 3. From facts to values -- 4. Reasons for altruism -- 5. The claims of consistency -- chapter eight Scientific morality -- 1. The Moral Landscape -- 2. Science contra morality -- 3. Science and morality -- chapter nine The claims of reason -- 1. Reason's own 'ought' -- 2. The rationality of the moral ought -- 3. The passion of the philosopher -- PART IV: THE KING -- chapter ten The rational state -- 1. Socrates' mistake -- 2. The truth in conservatism -- 3. Anarchism and communism -- 4. Homo economicus -- 5. Fatal traction -- chapter eleven Political reason -- 1. Political pluralism -- 2. Threats to pluralism -- 3. Secularism -- 4. Secular pluralism renewed.
Conclusion: using reason -- 1. The uses of skepticism -- 2. What is at stake -- 3. A user's guide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: THE JUDGE -- chapter one The Eternal God argument -- 1. Big pictures, broad brushes -- 2. Choose your bedrock -- 3. The holism of reason -- 4. Between a rock and hard node -- 5. Reason as apologetics -- 6. The dim light of reason -- chapter two Science for humans -- 1. Fitting the facts -- 2. Scientific method -- 3. The feeling of truth -- 4. The impurity of science -- chapter three Rationality and judgement -- 1. Philosophy's dirty secret -- 2. Logic and judgement -- 3. The constraints of logic -- 4. Scarce deductions -- PART II: THE GUIDE -- chapter four Lives of the mind -- 1. The thinker and the thought -- 2. The stories of our lives -- chapter five The challenge of psychology -- 1. Hot heads -- 2. Not so fast -- 3. Gendered reason -- 4. One- trick ponies -- chapter six Guided by reason -- 1. Objectivity -- 2. Five characteristics of the objective -- 3. The boundaries of the rational -- 4. Rational catholicism -- 5. Ending the truth wars -- PART III: THE MOTIVATOR -- chapter seven Rational morality -- 1. Rationally bound ethics -- 2. Whose reasons? -- 3. From facts to values -- 4. Reasons for altruism -- 5. The claims of consistency -- chapter eight Scientific morality -- 1. The Moral Landscape -- 2. Science contra morality -- 3. Science and morality -- chapter nine The claims of reason -- 1. Reason's own 'ought' -- 2. The rationality of the moral ought -- 3. The passion of the philosopher -- PART IV: THE KING -- chapter ten The rational state -- 1. Socrates' mistake -- 2. The truth in conservatism -- 3. Anarchism and communism -- 4. Homo economicus -- 5. Fatal traction -- chapter eleven Political reason -- 1. Political pluralism -- 2. Threats to pluralism -- 3. Secularism -- 4. Secular pluralism renewed.

Conclusion: using reason -- 1. The uses of skepticism -- 2. What is at stake -- 3. A user's guide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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