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Books

The Reasonableness of Reason by Bruce Hauptli

Raymond Pfeiffer finds The Reasonableness of Reason not entirely unreasonable.

This book presents a sustained argument for a definitive answer to a perennial philosophical question: Is reason the best guide to reliable belief? Bruce Hauptli does not have a weak stomach in answering this, nor is he lacking in focus or persistence: he has published a work that is both encyclopedic in scope and microscopic in its attention to the details of philosophical arguments.

Reason is, of course, multi-faceted. It includes canons and standards of both deductive and inductive logic; mathematics; empirical science, and more. Proof, by its very nature, employs reason. So it would appear that any effort to prove anything must employ reason.

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