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Books by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber

Hugo Mercier is a research scientist at the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris, working in the areas of cognitive and social psychology, evolutionary psychology, and epistemology. Dan Sperber is a French anthropologist and cognitive scientist affiliated with the Jean Nicod Institute and Central European University. Together they developed the argumentative theory of reasoning, first presented in a 2011 paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences that generated responses from more than two dozen researchers. The Enigma of Reason is their full-length development of that thesis.