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Rationally Speaking #42 - On the Limits of Reason
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:51:14
Publish Date: 2011-08-28 14:00:16
Description: Following up on their interview with Robert Zaretsky on the dispute between David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau about the limits of reason, Julia and Massimo expand the topic to include a discussion of the failure of “foundational” projects (e.g., the quest for the ultimate bases of scientific reasoning, or of logic and mathematics). Also, our take on a recent paper on the evolutionary psychology of reasoning that has made mainstream news.
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