A spirited defense of the relevance of reason for an era of popular skepticism over such matters as climate change, vaccines, and evolution.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
In this urbane and witty book, Ronald de Sousa disputes the widespread notion that reason and emotion are natural antagonists. He argues that emotions are a kind of perception, that their roots in the paradigm scenarios in which they are learned give them an essentially dramatic structure, and that they have a crucial role to-play in rational beliefs, desires, and decisions by breaking the dead…