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Bounded thinking : intellectual virtues for limited agents / by Adam Morton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morton, Adam, 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virtue.
- Intellect.
- Practical reason.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 177 pages)
- Other Title:
- Intellectual virtues for limited agents
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Adam Morton offers a new account of the virtues of limitation management: intellectual virtues of adapting to the fact that we cannot solve many of the problems that we can describe. He argues that the best response to many problems depends not on the most rationally promising solution, but on the most likely route to success.
- Contents:
- The argument
- Helping one another to think well
- Externalism about thinking
- Irreplaceable virtue
- The difficulty of difficulty
- Dilemmas of thinking
- Rationality and intelligence.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Nov. 13, 2012).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-74033-8
- 0-19-163310-0
- OCLC:
- 922971474
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