Coherence in Thought and Action

Name: Coherence in Thought and Action
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ISBN: 9780262700924

ISBN-10: 0262700921

ISBN-13: 9780262700924

Edition: 2002

Authors: Paul Thagard

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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,…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/26/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 330
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.46" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.682



Preface


Acknowledgments



Coherence in Philosophy and Psychology



Coherence in Psychology



Coherence in Philosophy



Why Philosophy Abandoned Psychology



Cognitive Naturalism



Summary



Coherence as Constraint Satisfaction



Constraint Satisfaction



Coherence Problems



Computing Coherence



Measuring Coherence



Summary



Knowledge



Haack's "Foundherentism" and Explanatory Coherence



Analogical Coherence



Deductive Coherence



Perceptual Coherence



Conceptual Coherence



Unifying Coherence



Objections to Coherene Theories



Language



Summary



Reality



Truth and the World



Correspondence and Approximate Truth



Mind and Body



Other Minds



God



Summary



Appendix: The Comparative Coherence of Materialism, Dualism, and Theism



Ethics and Politics



Deliberative Coherence



Deductive Coherence



Explanatory Coherence



Analogical Coherence



Making Sense of Ethics



Putting It All Together



The Coherence of Abortion



Normative Issues



Politics: Justifying the State



What Kind of State?



Conclusion



Summary



Emotion



The Importance of Trust



Coherence-Based Inference



Emotional Coherence: Theory



Emotional Coherence: Model



Emotional Coherence and Trust



Empathy



Nationalism



Metacoherence



Beauty and Symmetry



Humor



Cognitive Therapy



Evidence for Emotional Coherence Theory



Normative Considerations



Summary



Consensus



Consensus in Science and Medicine



A Model of Consensus



Consensus and the Causes of Ulcers



Consensus and the Origin of the Moon



Benefits of Consensus Conferences



Consensus in Value Judgments



Summary



Probability



Two Traditions in Causal Reasoning



Probabilistic Networks



Translating ECHO into Probabilistic Networks



Tracking Probabilistic Problems with ECHO



Conclusion



Summary



The Future of Coherence


References


Index