Rationality : constraints and contexts / / edited by T.-W. Hung, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan, T.J. Lane, Taipei Medical University, Graduate Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, Brain and Consciousness Research Center, New Taipei City, Taiwan; Academia Sinica, Institute of European and American Studies, Taipei, Taiwan; National Chengchi University, Research Center for Mind, Brain and Learning, Taipei, Taiwan

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Academic Press, , [2017]; �2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 160
• Soggetto topico: Reasoning; Practical reason; Reason; Rationalism; Cognitive science
• Persona (resp. second.): HungT.-W.; LaneT. J.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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 ; 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? ; 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 ; 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? ; 7.1 - Introduction
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rationality
• ISBN: 0-12-804623-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910583386903321
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