Common Sense, Reasoning, and Rationality

ISBN-13: 9780195147674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str.

Renee Elio

Opis

As the eleventh volume in the New Directions in Cognitive Science series (formerly the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series), this work promises superb scholarship and interdisciplinary appeal. It addresses three areas of current and varied interest: common sense, reasoning, and rationality. While common sense and rationality often have been viewed as two distinct features in a unified cognitive map, this volume offers novel, even paradoxical, views of the relationship. Comprised of outstanding essays from distinguished philosophers, it considers what constitutes human rationality, behavior, and intelligence covering diverse areas of philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science. Indeed, it is at the forefront of cognitive research and promises to be of unprecedented influence across numerous disciplines.

Recenzje

This is an important collection, marking the emergence of an exciting branch of cognitive science- the interdisciplinary, empirically informed study of reasoning. The collection could serve as a text for advance undergraduate or graduate courses on resoning or within a module for courses in cognitive science or philosophy of psychology.