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Coherence in Thought and Action

Coherence in Thought and Action

Thagard, Paul

Paperback

Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psycholog

General PsychologyGeneral Science

ISBN10: 0262700921
ISBN13: 9780262700924
Publisher: Bradford Book
Published: Jul 26 2002
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.68 Width: 4.92 Depth: 7.78
Language: English
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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