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Copyright © 2001 The President and Fellows of Harvard College
Copyright © 2001 The President and Fellows of Harvard College
RETURN TO REASON
Stephen Toulmin
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
Copyright © 2001 The President and Fellows of Harvard College
Copyright © 2001 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Printed in the United States of America
First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2003
Second printing, 2003
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Toulmin, Stephen Edelston.
Return to reason / Stephen Toulmin.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-674-00495-7 (cloth)
ISBN 0-674-01235-6 (paper)
1. Reasoning. I. Title.
2001
128′.33—dc21 00-047186
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Contents
Preface vii
1 Introduction: Rationality and Certainty 1
2 How Reason Lost Its Balance 14
3 The Invention of Disciplines 29
4 Economics, or the Physics That Never Was 47
5 The Dreams of Rationalism 67
6 Rethinking Method 83
7 Practical Reason and the Clinical Arts 102
8 Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 123
9 The Trouble with Disciplines 138
10 Redressing the Balance 155
11 The Varieties of Experience 175
12 The World of Where and When 190
13 Postscript: Living with Uncertainty 204
Notes 215
Index 239
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Preface
t is a pleasure to recognize the debt I owe to Isaiah Berlin, who un-
I wittingly set me off on the inquiries of which this book is a belated fruit.
In 1948 he invited me—as a young research fellow of King’s College,
Cambridge—to spend time at our sister college, New College, Oxford,
where he was the Philosophy Tutor; there he told me in terms that I never
forgot that, for Anglo-American philosophers, the History of Ideas was a
non-subject. Since that time he has shown that