Hot thought : mechanisms and applications of emotional cognition / Paul Thagard ; in collaboration with Fred Kroon [and others].
2006
BF311 .T416 2006eb
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Title
Hot thought : mechanisms and applications of emotional cognition / Paul Thagard ; in collaboration with Fred Kroon [and others].
Author
Thagard, Paul.
ISBN
9780262284844 (electronic bk.)
0262284847 (electronic bk.)
1282098462
9781282098466
0262701243
9780262701242
1429410027
9781429410021
9786612098468
6612098465
026220164X (alk. paper)
9780262201643
0262284847 (electronic bk.)
1282098462
9781282098466
0262701243
9780262701242
1429410027
9781429410021
9786612098468
6612098465
026220164X (alk. paper)
9780262201643
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Copyright
©2006
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
BF311 .T416 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
152.4
Summary
"In Hot Thought, Paul Thagard describes the mental mechanisms - cognitive, neural, molecular, and social - that interact to produce different kinds of human thinking, from everyday decision making to legal reasoning, scientific discovery, and religious belief, and he discusses when and how thinking and reasoning should be emotional." "Thagard argues that an understanding of emotional thinking needs to integrate the cognitive, neural, molecular, and social levels. Many of the chapters employ computational models of various levels of thinking, including HOTCO (hot cognition) models and the more neurologically realistic GAGE model. Thagard uses these models to illuminate thinking in the domains of law, science, and religion, discussing such topics as the role of doubt and reasonable doubt in legal and other contexts, valuable emotional habits for successful scientists, and the emotional content of religious beliefs. Identifying and assessing the impact of emotion, Thagard argues, can suggest ways to improve the process of reasoning."--Jacket.
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"A Bradford book."
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Added Author
Kroon, Fred.
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