| Coherence in Thought and Action Revised Edition Contributor(s): Thagard, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0262700921 ISBN-13: 9780262700924 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: This book is an essay on how people make sense of each other and the world they live in. Making sense is the activity of fitting something puzzling into a coherent pattern of mental representations that include concepts, beliefs, goals, and actions. Paul Thagard proposes a general theory of coherence as the satisfaction of multiple interacting constraints, and discusses the theory's numerous psychological and philosophical applications. Much of human cognition can be understood in terms of coherence as constraint satisfaction, and many of the central problems of philosophy can be given coherence-based solutions. Thagard shows how coherence can help to unify psychology and philosophy, particularly when addressing questions of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. He also shows how coherence can integrate cognition and emotion. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Science - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
| Dewey: 121 |
| Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psycholog |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 4.92" W x 7.78" (0.73 lbs) 330 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Thagard, Paul: - Paul Thagard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of The Cognitive Science of Science (MIT Press, 2012) and many other books.Sterelny, Kim: - Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University and Victoria University of Wellington. His books include Language and Reality (with Michael Devitt; second edition, MIT Press).Wilson, Robert A.: - Robert A. Wilson is Professor of Philosophy at La Trobe University, the author of Genes and the Agents of Life, and coeditor of The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences and of Explanation and Cognition (MIT Press). He directed the project that built EugenicsArchive.ca and is a director and the executive producer of the documentary Surviving Eugenics. |