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William Byers

Byers, William

Byers, William

Professor Emeritus in Mathematics & Statistics, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

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Professor Emeritus in Mathematics & Statistics, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

William Byers is Professor Emeritus at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is the author of How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics, Princeton University Press (2007 and 2010) The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty, Princeton University Press (2011) and Deep Thinking: What Mathematics Can Teach Us About the Mind, World Scientific, (2015).

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What is Reason?
 Get Full Text in PDF Abstract This paper considers the central paradox of our time, namely, the triumphs of reason as reflected by the advances in scientific disciplines versus the seemingly inexorable increase in unreason as seen in the growth of authoritarianism and the rejection of science. The roots of this contradiction lie in a circularity in the scientific method itself, which becomes especially prominent in the project of reifying human consciousness. The crux of the problem...