Without Good Reason The Rationality Debate in Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Name: Without Good Reason The Rationality Debate in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
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ISBN: 9780198235743

ISBN-10: 0198235747

ISBN-13: 9780198235743

Edition: 1996

Authors: Edward Stein

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Are humans rational? Various experiments performed over the last several decades have been interpreted as showing that humans are irrational we make significant and consistent errors in logical reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, similarity judgements, and risk-assessment, to name a few areas. But can these experiments establish human irrationality, or is it a conceptual truth that humans must be rational, as various philosophers have argued? In this book, Edward Stein offers a clear critical account of this debate about rationality in philosophy and cognitive science. He discusses concepts of rationality - the pictures of rationality that the debate centres on - and assesses the empirical…

Book details

List price: $140.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/25/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 306
Size: 5.67" wide x 8.82" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Introduction



Competence



Psychological Evidence



Charity



Reflective Equilibrium



Evolution



The Standard Picture



Conclusion


Bibliography


Index