Hot thought : mechanisms and applications of emotional cognition / Paul Thagard ; in collaboration with Fred Kroon ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thagard, Paul.

Contributor:

Kroon, Fred.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions and cognition.

Physical Description:

xii, 301 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In Hot Thought, Paul Thagard describes the mental mechanisms - cognitive, neural, molecular, and social - that interact to produce different kinds of human thinking, from everyday decision making to legal reasoning, scientific discovery, and religious belief, and he discusses when and how thinking and reasoning should be emotional." "Thagard argues that an understanding of emotional thinking needs to integrate the cognitive, neural, molecular, and social levels. Many of the chapters employ computational models of various levels of thinking, including HOTCO (hot cognition) models and the more neurologically realistic GAGE model. Thagard uses these models to illuminate thinking in the domains of law, science, and religion, discussing such topics as the role of doubt and reasonable doubt in legal and other contexts, valuable emotional habits for successful scientists, and the emotional content of religious beliefs. Identifying and assessing the impact of emotion, Thagard argues, can suggest ways to improve the process of reasoning."--Jacket.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Acknowledgments

I Mechanisms

1 Mental Mechanisms

2 How to Make Decisions

3 Emotional Analogies and Analogical Inference

4 Emotional Gestalts: Appraisal, Change, and the Dynamics of Affect

5 Emotional Consensus in Group Decision Making

6 Spiking Phineas Gage: A Neurocomputational Theory of Cognitive-Affective Integration in Decision Making

7 How Molecules Matter to Mental Computation

II Applications

8 Why Wasn't O. J. Convicted? Emotional Coherence in Legal Inference

9 What Is Doubt and When Is It Reasonable?

10 The Passionate Scientist: Emotion in Scientific Cognition

11 Curing Cancer? Patrick Lee's Path to the Reovirus Treatment

12 How to Be a Successful Scientist

13 Self-Deception and Emotional Coherence

14 The Emotional Coherence of Religion

15 Critique of Emotional Reason

16 New Directions

References

Index.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-293) and index.

ISBN:

9780262284844 (eBook)

OCLC:

74337191