Coherence in Thought and Action

By:

Paul Thagard

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology

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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.

Author Biography:

Paul Thagard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of The Cognitive Science of Science (MIT Press, 2012) and many other books.

Release date Australia

July 26th, 2002

Author

Paul Thagard

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

330

Series

Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology

Dimensions

127x197x19

ISBN-13

9780262700924

Product ID

12077092

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