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Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behaviour (Random $39)

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Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behaviour (Random $39)

Complete with a chapter on Commerce ("Alle thinges obeyen to moneye";-Chaucer), Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behaviour (Random $39) by UBC's Donald Calne, the director of Neurodegenerative Disorders Centre at VGH, examines the evolutionary origins, biological basis and limits of rational thought. He argues that modern disenchantment with reason is the result of the failure of quixotic hopes vested in it. 0-375-40351-5

[BCBW SUMMER 1999]

Submitted on July 7, 2003 in By David.

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