Letting Go of Logic

Reason can take us only so far. At a certain point, it ineluctably falls silent. Other ways of thinking need to be called upon.

Reason is good at discerning error, identifying evil, and calling out nonsense; but it is poor at deriving actions from aims, theories from observations, laws from facts, values from experience, and judgments from codes of conduct. Because logic cannot escape its own premises, it remains enclosed in its starting assumptions. If everyone in the world obeyed only reason, we would have no science, art, or morality.

This engaging new book is chock full of ideas and arguments, stimulating the reader to take them forward in their own mind.

Business schools are moving to a more philosophical curriculum. Both professors and students are asking deeper questions than those answered by economics and psychology. The book will appeal to business practitioners as well as business school students and teachers.