Coherence in Thought and Action - Rilegato

Thagard, Paul

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0262201313 ISBN 13: 9780262201315

Casa editrice: Bradford Books, 2000

Riassunto

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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• Editore: Bradford Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0262201313
• ISBN 13: 9780262201315
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 312