Lynch, Michael P. <br/><br/>
In Praise of Reason :  Why Rationality Matters for Democracy. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (179 pages) 
 - The MIT Press Series .
 - The MIT Press Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Hope and Reason -- 1 Sources of Skepticism -- 2 Democracy as a Space of Reasons -- 2 Neither Slave nor Master: Reason and Emotion -- 1 Alarming Data -- 2 Two Pictures -- 3 Lifting a Finger -- 4 Intuition: What Just Seems Right -- 5 Without Reason? -- 3 "Nothing but Dreams and Smoke" -- 1 Skepticism from the Tower -- 2 Certain and Assured -- 3 Skepticism and Epistemic Incommensurability -- 4 Reasons End: Tradition and Common Sense -- 1 That Is Just How Things Are Done -- 2 Common Sense and Presuppositions -- 5 The "Sacred Tradition of Humanity" -- 1 Belief, Faith, and Commitment -- 2 Objectivity and a Common Point of View -- 3 The Method Game -- 4 Questions and Answers -- 6 Truth and the Pathos of Distance -- 1 A Picture of Knowledge -- 2 Truth and Inquiry -- 3 Representing the World -- 4 Truth and the Human -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 1 Hope and Reason -- 2 Neither Slave nor Master: Reason and Emotion -- 3 "Nothing but Dreams and Smoke" -- 4 Reasons End: Tradition and Common Sense -- 5 The "Sacred Tradition of Humanity" -- 6 Truth and the Pathos of Distance -- Conclusion -- Index. 
<br/><br/> A spirited defense of the relevance of reason for an era of popular skepticism over such matters as climate change, vaccines, and evolution. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262301138 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Reason.<br/>Reasoning.<br/>Rationalism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B833 -- .L96 2012eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>128.33