Bøker av Richard (Professor of Philosophy Foley

The Geography of Insight argues that the issues of the humanities and sciences are different in kind and that inquiries into these issues also have different characteristics as do the resulting insights. These differences constitute an intellectual geography of the humanities and sciences: a mapping of key features of the two domains.

In this book, the author offers a major new theory of rationality. His aim is to escape the "doldrums of Descartes", by lowering the standard for what is rational from Descartes' impossibly demanding level of certainty.