Rationality And Reflection
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Rationality And Reflection
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Author : Jonathan L. Kvanvig
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014
Rationality And Reflection written by Jonathan L. Kvanvig and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Philosophy categories.
This book sets out a theory of rationality--a theory about how to determine what to think--which defends a significant degree of optionality in the story of what is reasonable for people to think, and thereby provides a framework for explaining what kinds of rational disagreement are possible.--Publisher's description.
Religious Mystery And Rational Reflection
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Author : Louis K. Dupré
language : en
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Release Date : 1998
Religious Mystery And Rational Reflection written by Louis K. Dupré and has been published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Philosophy categories.
How should philosophy approach religious experience? Can philosophy do more than describe religious experience without discussing its object? Can religion make genuine truth claims? These are some of the questions raised in these essays.
Emotion And Social Theory
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Author : Simon Williams
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2001-02-27
Emotion And Social Theory written by Simon Williams and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-27 with Social Science categories.
The emotions have traditionally been marginalized in mainstream social theory. This book demonstrates the problems that this has caused and charts the resurgence of emotions in social theory today. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, both classical and contemporary, Simon Williams treats the emotions as a universal feature of human life and our embodied relationship to the world. He reflects and comments upon the turn towards the body and intimacy in social theory, and explains what is important in current thinking about emotions. In his doing so, readers are provided with a critical assessment of various positions within the field, including the strengths and weaknesses of poststructuralism and postmodernism for examinin
Evolution And Rationality
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Author : Samir Okasha
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-21
Evolution And Rationality written by Samir Okasha and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-21 with Science categories.
This volume explores from multiple perspectives the subtle and interesting relationship between the theory of rational choice and Darwinian evolution. In rational choice theory, agents are assumed to make choices that maximize their utility; in evolution, natural selection 'chooses' between phenotypes according to the criterion of fitness maximization. So there is a parallel between utility in rational choice theory and fitness in Darwinian theory. This conceptual link between fitness and utility is mirrored by the interesting parallels between formal models of evolution and rational choice. The essays in this volume, by leading philosophers, economists, biologists and psychologists, explore the connection between evolution and rational choice in a number of different contexts, including choice under uncertainty, strategic decision making and pro-social behaviour. They will be of interest to students and researchers in philosophy of science, evolutionary biology, economics and psychology.
The Reflective Practitioner
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Author : Donald A. Schön
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Reflective Practitioner written by Donald A. Schön and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Créativité categories.
A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions, engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals, Donald Schön maintains, know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work, they rely less on formulas learned in graduate school than on the kind of improvisation learned in practice. This unarticulated, largely unexamined process is the subject of Schön's provocatively original book, an effort to show precisely how reflection-in-action works and how this vital creativity might be fostered in future professionals.
The Rationality Quotient
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Author : Keith E. Stanovich
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2016-09-30
The Rationality Quotient written by Keith E. Stanovich and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-30 with Psychology categories.
How to assess critical aspects of cognitive functioning that are not measured by IQ tests: rational thinking skills. Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people do foolish things all the time. Misjudgments and bad decisions by highly educated bankers and money managers, for example, brought us the financial crisis of 2008. Smart people do foolish things because intelligence is not the same as the capacity for rational thinking. The Rationality Quotient explains that these two traits, often (and incorrectly) thought of as one, refer to different cognitive functions. The standard IQ test, the authors argue, doesn't measure any of the broad components of rationality—adaptive responding, good judgment, and good decision making. The authors show that rational thinking, like intelligence, is a measurable cognitive competence. Drawing on theoretical work and empirical research from the last two decades, they present the first prototype for an assessment of rational thinking analogous to the IQ test: the CART (Comprehensive Assessment of Rational Thinking). The authors describe the theoretical underpinnings of the CART, distinguishing the algorithmic mind from the reflective mind. They discuss the logic of the tasks used to measure cognitive biases, and they develop a unique typology of thinking errors. The Rationality Quotient explains the components of rational thought assessed by the CART, including probabilistic and scientific reasoning; the avoidance of “miserly” information processing; and the knowledge structures needed for rational thinking. Finally, the authors discuss studies of the CART and the social and practical implications of such a test. An appendix offers sample items from the test.
Minimal Rationality
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Author : Christopher Cherniak
language : en
Publisher: Mit Press
Release Date : 1986-01-01
Minimal Rationality written by Christopher Cherniak and has been published by Mit Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
In Minimal Rationality, Christopher Cherniak boldly challenges the myth of Man the the Rational Animal and the central role that the " perfectly rational agent" has had in philosophy, psychology, and other cognitive sciences, as well as in economics.
Rationality And Dynamic Choice
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Author : Edward F. McClennen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1990-05-25
Rationality And Dynamic Choice written by Edward F. McClennen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-05-25 with Education categories.
In this major contribution to the theory of rational choice the author sets out the foundations of rational choice, and then sketches a dynamic choice framework in which principles of ordering and independence follow from a number of apparently plausible conditions. However there is potential conflict among these conditions, and when they are weakened to avoid it, the usual foundations of rational choice no longer prevail. The thrust of the argument is to suggest that the theory of rational choice is less determinate than many suppose.
Rationality Virtue And Liberation
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Author : Stephen Petro
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-11-19
Rationality Virtue And Liberation written by Stephen Petro and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-19 with Philosophy categories.
This book explores the overlooked but vital theoretical relationships between R. M. Hare, Alan Gewirth, and Jürgen Habermas. The author claims their accounts of value, while failing to address classic virtue-theoretical critiques, bear the seeds of a resolution to the ultimate question “What is most valuable?” These dialectical approaches, as claimed, justify a reinterpretation of value and value judgment according to the Carnapian conception of an empirical-linguistic framework or grammar. Through a further synthesis with the work of Philippa Foot and Thomas Magnell, the author shows that “value” would be literally meaningless without four fundamental phenomena which constitute such a framework: Logical Judgment, Conceptual Synthesis, Conceptual Abstraction, and Freedom. As part of the 'grammar of goodness,' the excellence of these phenomena, in a highly concrete way, constitute the essence of the greatest good, as this book explains.
Tradition Rationality And Virtue
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Author : Thomas D. D'Andrea
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2006
Tradition Rationality And Virtue written by Thomas D. D'Andrea and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Philosophy categories.
Tradition, Rationality and Virtue provides the first comprehensive and detailed treatment of the work of Alasdair MacIntyre. In this book, Thomas D'Andrea presents an accessible critical study of the full range of MacIntyre's thought, across ethical theory, psychoanalytic theory, social and political philosophy, Marxist theory, and the philosophy of religion. Moving from the roots of MacIntyre's thought in ethical inquiry, this book examines MacIntyre's treatment of Marx, Christianity, and the nature of human action and discusses in depth the development and applications of MacIntyre's After Virtue project. The book culminates in an examination of major internal and external criticisms of MacIntyre's work and a consideration of its future directions.