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Reason Has Its Limits

In The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us, information scientist Noson Yanofsky explores the problems we encounter when we try to reason about our surroundings. 

Yanofsky "provides an entertaining and informative whirlwind trip through limits on reason in language, formal logic, mathematics—and in science, the culmination of humankind's attempts to reason about the world."

Read New Scientist's review.

Start Date: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2013