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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955352103321

Titolo

Common sense, reasoning, & rationality / / edited by Renee Elio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-19-514767-7

1-280-53220-3

9786610532209

0-19-803368-0

1-4294-0340-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 278 pages)

Collana

New directions in cognitive science

Disciplina

128/.33

Soggetti

Reasoning

Practical reason

Commonsense reasoning

Common sense

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Issues in commonsense reasoning and rationality / Renée Elio -- Rationality and intelligence / Stuart Russell -- The logical foundations of means-end reasoning / John L. Pollock -- Induction and consistency / Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. -- The logic of ordinary language / Gilbert Harman -- Knowledge and coherence / Paul Thagard [and others] -- The evolutionary roots of intelligence and rationality / Denise Dellarosa Cummins -- How good are fast and frugal heuristics? / Gerd Gigerenzer, Jean Czerlinski, and Laura Martignon -- Commonsense reasoning, logic, and human rationality / Mike Oaksford and Nick Chater -- Reasoning imperialism / Lance J. Rips -- Ending the rationality wars : how to make disputes about human rationality disappear / Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich, and Michael Bishop.

Sommario/riassunto

While common sense and rationality have often been viewed as two distinct features in a unified cognitive map, this volume engages with this notion and comes up with novel and often paradoxical views of this relationship.