How can anyone criticize reason? How could reason anything other than a force for good? The modern world is so deeply invested in the supremacy of reason and scientific empiricism that challenging the efficacy and good of either is a new kind of heresy. Yet reason does have its limitations, both in practice and in theory. The work of computer scientists and mathematicians in the 20th century have critically undermined reason as a chief means of knowing truth.
The Fraud of Rationality and the Practical…
How can anyone criticize reason? How could reason anything other than a force for good? The modern world is so deeply invested in the supremacy of reason and scientific empiricism that challenging the efficacy and good of either is a new kind of heresy. Yet reason does have its limitations, both in practice and in theory. The work of computer scientists and mathematicians in the 20th century have critically undermined reason as a chief means of knowing truth.
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