num_pages: 191
description: In recent years, leading cognitive psychologists have painted a detailed, controversial, and highly critical portrait of commonsense reasoning. Stephen Stich undertakes a spirited defense of this work and puts forth a critique of those writers who argue that widespread irrationality is a biological or conceptual impossibility.Stephen Stich is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and author of From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science.
language: English
title: Fragmentation of Reason: Preface to a Pragmatic Theory of Cognitive Evaluation
titlecomplete: Fragmentation of Reason: Preface to a Pragmatic Theory of Cognitive Evaluation (Bradford Books)
genres: Philosophy, Psychology
ratings_count: 19
publisher: Bradford Books