Edge of Reason

A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World

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Julian Baggini: Edge of Reason (2016, Yale University Press)

272 pages

English language

Published April 19, 2016 by Yale University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-300-22208-1
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4 stars (1 review)

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Review of 'Edge of Reason' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

Puts "reason" in its place as one of several modes of thinking that are necessary to human beings.
The section on politics seemed naïve ― as if he did a quick look at Wikipedia to get his understanding of communism and anarchism ― and some sections got a little too much into academic philosophy considering the intended audience, but you can skim those if you wish.

I have quite a few stickies marking paragraphs to revisit in the first few chapters but they tailed off towards the end as, although it was applying his ideas to new topics, I'd got the point, I think.

Still, worth reading if you want to read some philosophy that is more practical than the highly academic works that seem more common.

Subjects

  • Rationalism
  • Reason