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082 0 4 _a128.33
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aToulmin, Stephen
_eautore
245 1 0 _aReturn to Reason /
_cStephen Toulmin.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c2003
300 _a1 online resource (256 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_t1 Introduction: Rationality and Certainty --
_t2 How Reason Lost Its Balance --
_t3 The Invention of Disciplines --
_t4 Economics, or the Physics That Never Was --
_t5 The Dreams of Rationalism --
_t6 Rethinking Method --
_t7 Practical Reason and the Clinical Arts --
_t8 Ethical Theory and Moral Practice --
_t9 The Trouble with Disciplines --
_t10 Redressing the Balance --
_t11 The Varieties of Experience --
_t12 The World of Where and When --
_t13 Postscript: Living with Uncertainty --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe turmoil and brutality of the twentieth century have made it increasingly difficult to maintain faith in the ability of reason to fashion a stable and peaceful world. After the ravages of global conflict and a Cold War that divided the world's loyalties, how are we to master our doubts and face the twenty-first century with hope?In Return to Reason, Stephen Toulmin argues that the potential for reason to improve our lives has been hampered by a serious imbalance in our pursuit of knowledge. The centuries-old dominance of rationality, a mathematical mode of reasoning modeled on theory and universal certainties, has diminished the value of reasonableness, a system of humane judgments based on personal experience and practice. To this day, academic disciplines such as economics and professions such as law and medicine often value expert knowledge and abstract models above the testimony of diverse cultures and the practical experience of individuals.Now, at the beginning of a new century, Toulmin sums up a lifetime of distinguished work and issues a powerful call to redress the balance between rationality and reasonableness. His vision does not reject the valuable fruits of science and technology, but requires awareness of the human consequences of our discoveries. Toulmin argues for the need to confront the challenge of an uncertain and unpredictable world, not with inflexible ideologies and abstract theories, but by returning to a more humane and compassionate form of reason, one that accepts the diversity and complexity that is human nature as an essential beginning for all intellectual inquiry.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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