Coherence in thought and action

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Coherence in thought and action

Paul Thagard

(Life and mind : philosophical issues in biology and psychology)

MIT Press, c2000

  • : pbk

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"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-303) and index

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Description

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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  • NCID
    BA50389706
  • ISBN
    • 0262201313
    • 0262700921
  • LCCN
    00035503
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge, Mass.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 312 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
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