Coherence in thought and action / Paul Thagard.
2000
BD171 .T45 2000eb
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Title
Coherence in thought and action / Paul Thagard.
Author
Thagard, Paul.
ISBN
9780262284820 (electronic bk.)
0262284820 (electronic bk.)
0585446024 (electronic bk.)
9780585446028 (electronic bk.)
0262201313
9780262201315
0262284820 (electronic bk.)
0585446024 (electronic bk.)
9780585446028 (electronic bk.)
0262201313
9780262201315
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
Copyright
©2000
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
BD171 .T45 2000eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
121
Summary
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.
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"A Bradford book."
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