This is a very good book. The two patterns of rationality Goldberg discusses are “the Galilean model” of scientific understanding and the narrative model for intelligibility in the limited domain of human reality. Goldberg announces as his principal claim “that the Galilean model of rationality is inadequate both as a method of inquiry into human nature and as an account of what makes us human” (p. 22). By the scientific model Goldberg means the concept of scientific theory construction and scientific explanation (deduction from covering laws and conditions), which are historically connected with ideas of the great developers of mathematical