I picked up a copy of Frederick Schauer's Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes because it looked very promising. The book is about generalization in legal reasoning, and I thought I'd learn something about methods. Schauer is Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and author of several books in legal philosophy. I started the book in happy anticipation, rapidly became puzzled, then a little put off, and finally wound up just plain irritated.