Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 297 g
Philosophical Essays on Rationality, Evolution, and Probability
Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 297 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-928871-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press
David Papineau presents a controversial view of human reason, portraying it as a normal part of the natural world, and drawing on the empirical sciences to illuminate its workings. In these six interconnected essays he offers a fresh approach to some long-standing problems.
Papineau rejects the contemporary orthodoxy that genuine thought hinges on some species of non-natural normativity. He explores the evolutionary histories of theoretical and practical rationality, indicating ways in which capacities underlying human reasoning have been selected for their biological advantages. He then looks at the connection between decision and probability, explaining how good decisions need to be informed by causal as well as probabilistic facts. Finally he defends the radical view that a satisfactory understanding of decision-making is only possible within a specific interpretation of quantum mechanics.
By placing the subject in its scientific context, Papineau shows how human rationality plays an explicable role in the functioning of the natural world.
Zielgruppe
Scholars and students of the philosophy of psychology, epistemology, cognitive science, decision theory, and evolutionary theory
Fachgebiete
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Datenanalyse, Datenverarbeitung
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Intelligenz, Denken, Problemlösen
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
