DIVERGENT REASONINGS AND DIALOGUES OF THE DEAF: WHY ...

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University of Edmonton 2006 A lecture by Prof. Marc Angenot FRSC DIVERGENT REASONINGS AND DIALOGUES OF THE DEAF: WHY DO WE OFTEN FIND OTHERS “IRRATIONAL”? Rather than set out conclusions and theses, I would like to present a series of questions on rationality and social discourses that I feel could interest everyone. This series of questions is the basis for my most recent book (to be published in Paris in a few months) called Dialogues de sourds, or Dialogues of the Deaf, which can be summarized by this simple question: Why Do We Often Find Others “Irrational”? “We judge each other mutually as follows:

• disagreement
• cognitive clash between humans
• social state
• defenders of common sense over the status of social reality
• common sense
• political struggles
• human knowledge
• reasoning
• everything
• reason