UID:
edocfu_9960161380102883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
0-12-804623-6
Series Statement:
Gale eBooks
Content:
This book addresses recent challenges and identifies a direction for future research on rationality and investigates the relationship between rationality and mental disorders, such as delusion and depression.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Part I - Introduction; Chapter 1 - Rationality and its Contexts; Acknowledgments; References; Part II - Science; Chapter 2 - Bayesian Psychology and Human Rationality; 2.1 - Introduction; 2.2 - The standard picture and the standard empirical challenge; 2.2.1 - First Pass; 2.2.2 - Accordance Conditions and the Standard Picture; 2.2.2.1 - Accordance as Optimal Performance; 2.2.2.2 - Strong Algorithmic Accordance; 2.2.2.3 - Weak Algorithmic Accordance; 2.3 - The standard challenge to human rationality
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2.3.1 - The Challenge (a Reminder)2.3.2 - A Consensus in the Research on Human Reasoning; 2.4 - Rationality reanimated; 2.5 - Rationality rechallenged; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3 - Scientific Rationality: Phlogiston as a Case Study; 3.1 - Introduction; 3.2 - Chang on retaining phlogiston; 3.2.1 - Phlogiston, Electricity, and Energy; 3.2.2 - Phlogiston Was Not Any Worse Than Oxygen; 3.3 - Evaluating the benefits of retaining phlogiston; 3.3.1 - Phlogiston and Hydrogen; 3.3.2 - Davy's Phlogistic and Electrochemical Speculations; 3.3.3 - Benefits and Harms of Retention
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3.4 - The rationality of eliminating/retaining phlogiston3.4.1 - Chang on the Rationality of the Chemical Revolution; 3.4.2 - Eliminating and Retaining Phlogiston Are Both Rational; 3.5 - Scientific rationality more generally; 3.6 - Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 4 - Cross-Cultural Differences in Thinking: Some Thoughts on Psychological Paradigms; 4.1 - Introduction: a universal mind game; 4.2 - Piecemeal intellectual endeavours; 4.3 - Is the psychology of thinking inherently culturally biased toward explaining western behavior?
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4.4 - A holistic analysis of holistic versus analytic thinking4.5 - Some thought experiments; 4.5.1 - Are Psychologists Themselves a WEIRD Population?; 4.5.2 - Is Psychology for Real?; 4.5.3 - How Might Psychology Have Been?; 4.6 - What of cognitive universals?; 4.7 - Resolutions; References; Part III - Pathology; Chapter 5 - Delusion and the Norms of Rationality; 5.1 - Introduction; 5.2 - The epistemic conception of delusion; 5.3 - The absence of reasoning deficits; 5.4 - The challenge from cognitive neuropsychiatry; 5.5 - The demarcation challenge
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5.6 - The functional conception of delusion5.7 - Conclusions; References; Chapter 6 - Outline of a Theory of Delusion: Irrationality and Pathological Belief; 6.1 - Delusions; 6.2 - A social theory of delusion; 6.2.1 - The Phenomena to be Explained; 6.2.2 - Central Questions; 6.2.3 - Evolutionary Background: The Social Brain Hypothesis; 6.2.4 - The Suspicion System; 6.2.5 - Some Evidence; 6.2.6 - A Dual-Process Account; 6.2.7 - Hypothesis; 6.2.8 - Central Questions Again; 6.3 - Rationality redux: formulating the problem; References; Chapter 7 - Is Depressive Rumination Rational?
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7.1 - Introduction
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-804600-7
Language:
English
