Return to reason [[electronic resource] /] / Stephen Toulmin
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| Autore: |
Toulmin Stephen <1922-2009.>
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| Titolo: |
Return to reason [[electronic resource] /] / Stephen Toulmin
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 243 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 128.33 |
| Soggetto topico: | Reasoning |
| Logic | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Originally published: 2001. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-238) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preface 1 Introduction: Rationality and Certainty 2 How Reason Lost Its Balance 3 The Invention of Disciplines 4 Economics, or the Physics That Never Was 5 The Dreams of Rationalism 6 Rethinking Method 7 Practical Reason and the Clinical Arts 8 Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 9 The Trouble with Disciplines 10 Redressing the Balance 11 The Varieties of Experience 12 The World of Where and When 13 Postscript: Living with Uncertainty Notes Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | After the ravages of global conflict and a Cold War, how are we to master our doubts and face the 21st century with hope? This text argues that the potential to improve our lives has been hampered by a serious imbalance in our pursuit of knowledge. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Return to reason |
| ISBN: | 0-674-04442-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454683703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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