Readership: Scholars and advanced students of philosophy and cognitive science.
Edward Stein, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
"The whole book is written in a clear, lively and enjoyable style. It is carefully-argued throughout ... it is an excellent attempt at a synoptic cognitivist account of the philosophical implications of the experimental investigation of human rationality. I strongly recommend it to lecturers and students of the philosophy of mind and cognition as the best comprehensive survey of the literature on rationality." - John Preston, University of Reading
"The book contains a particularly clear apraisal - the best in the literature, I thought - of arguments for the rationality thesis from the "principle of Charity". (C. 4), as well as a careful, thorough and sophisticated examination of the arguments which portray the rationality thesis as the ... outcome of evolution by natural selection ... The whole book is written in a clear, lively and enjoyable style. It is carefully-argued throughout ... I strongly recommend it to lecturers and students of the philosophy of mind and cognition as the best comprehensive survey of the literature on rationality." - John Preston, Mind
1: Introduction 2: Competence 3: Psychological Evidence. 4: Charity 5: Reflective Equilibrium 6: Evolution 7: The Standard Picture 8: Conclusion Bibliography Index
