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N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Coherence in thought and action /
DA  - ©2000.
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. :
AU  - Thagard, Paul.
CN  - BD171
PB  - MIT Press,
PP  - Cambridge, Mass. :
PY  - ©2000.
N1  - "A Bradford book."
ID  - 1386158
KW  - Truth
KW  - COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
KW  - PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General
SN  - 9780262284820
SN  - 0262284820
SN  - 0585446024
SN  - 9780585446028
TI  - Coherence in thought and action /
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