Cognitive unconscious and human rationality / edited by Laura Macchi, Maria Bagassi, and Riccardo Viale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Macchi, Laura, 1961- editor.

Bagassi, Maria, editor.

Viale, Riccardo, editor.

Series:

The MIT Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reasoning (Psychology).

Cognition.

Subconsciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This volume contributes to a current debate within the psychology of thought that has wide implications for our ideas about creativity, decision making, and economic behavior. The essays focus on the role of implicit, unconscious thinking in creativity and problem solving, the interaction of intuition and analytic thinking, and the relationship between communicative heuristics and thought. The analyses move beyond the conventional conception of mind informed by extra-psychological theoretical models toward a genuinely psychological conception of rationality--a rationality no longer limited to conscious, explicit thought, but able to exploit the intentional implicit level. The contributors consider a new conception of human rationality that must cope with the uncertainty of the real world; the implications of abandoning the normative model of classic logic and adopting a probabilistic approach instead; the argumentative and linguistic aspects of reasoning; and the role of implicit thought in reasoning, creativity, and its neurological base"--MIT CogNet.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword: Cooking Eggs on a Toaster; Introduction; I Bounded Rationality Updated; 1 Rationality without Optimization: Bounded Rationality; 2 Grounded Rationality and the New Paradigm Psychology of Reasoning; 3 The Interpretative Function and the Emergence of Unconscious Analytic Thought; II The Paradigm Shift: The Debate; 4 The Paradigm Shift in the Psychology of Reasoning; 5 Knowing Enough to Achieve Your Goals: Bayesian Models and Practical and Theoretical Rationality in Conscious and Unconscious Inference; 6 Logic, Probability, and Inference: A Methodology for a New Paradigm

7 Dual Reasoning Processes and the Resolution of Uncertainty: The Case of Belief Bias8 The Basic Assumptions of Intuitive Belief: Laws, Determinism, and Free Will; III Epistemic Context in Reasoning; 9 Pragmatic Approaches to Deontic Conditionals: From Rule Content to Rule Use; 10 Why Don ' t People Produce Better Arguments?; 11 Individual Differences in Reasoning beyond Ability and Disposition; IV Implicit Thought: Its Role in Reasoning and in Creativity; 12 Thinking beyond Boundaries; 13 Implicit and Explicit Processes: Their Relation, Interaction, and Competition

14 Meta-reasoning: Monitoring and Control of Reasoning, Decision Making, and Problem Solving15 Incubation in Creative Thinking; 16 Brain-Based Bounded Creativity; Closing Thoughts; 17 A Psycho-rhetorical Perspective on Thought and HumanRationality; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-33512-3

0-262-33511-5

OCLC:

945105856

Publisher Number:

40025926457