Here is editor John Welch’s able summary of Joe Spencer’s serious and thoughtful review essay on my The Responsibility of Reason (Rowman & Littlefield 2011). Joe’s review just appeared in BYU Studies. Joseph Spencer’s essay about Professor Ralph Hancock’s important book, The Responsibility of Reason, also opens up further possibilities. As Spencer summarizes, Hancock argues that it is necessary to recog- nize that the world of concrete practices bears within itself a set of orga- nizing forms that are governed by “the good,”... Read more