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In: | Mind & Language, 33, 2018, 5, p. 513-524 |
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Wiley
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Media Type: | Article, E-Article |
Physical Description: | 513-524 |
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ISSN: |
0268-1064
1468-0017 |
DOI: | 10.1111/mila.12174 |
published in: | Mind & Language |
Language: | English |
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Collection: | Wiley (CrossRef) |
<jats:p>In <jats:italic>The Enigma of Reason</jats:italic>, Mercier and Sperber (M&S) present and defend their interactionist account of reason. In this piece, I discuss briefly the points of agreement between M&S and myself and, more extensively, the points of disagreement, most of which pertain to details of the evolutionary components of their account. I discuss in particular the purported modular nature of reason; their account of myside bias as an optimum/adaptation; and the claim that reason thus construed must be an individual‐level and not a group‐level adaptation. In the final section, I offer brief considerations on an alternative account of reasoning, where the focus is on how sociocultural environments may tune the social production and evaluation of arguments.</jats:p> |