Coherence in thought and action /

Coherence in thought and action /

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Author / Creator:Thagard, Paul.
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.
Description:xiv, 312 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:Life and mind
Subject:
Truth -- Coherence theory.
Truth -- Coherence theory.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4367781
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ISBN:0262201313 (alk. paper)
Notes:"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-303) and index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Coherence in Philosophy and Psychology
  • 1. Coherence in Psychology
  • 2. Coherence in Philosophy
  • 3. Why Philosophy Abandoned Psychology
  • 4. Cognitive Naturalism
  • 5. Summary
  • 2. Coherence as Constraint Satisfaction
  • 1. Constraint Satisfaction
  • 2. Coherence Problems
  • 3. Computing Coherence
  • 4. Measuring Coherence
  • 5. Summary
  • 3. Knowledge
  • 1. Haack's "Foundherentism" and Explanatory Coherence
  • 2. Analogical Coherence
  • 3. Deductive Coherence
  • 4. Perceptual Coherence
  • 5. Conceptual Coherence
  • 6. Unifying Coherence
  • 7. Objections to Coherene Theories
  • 8. Language
  • 9. Summary
  • 4. Reality
  • 1. Truth and the World
  • 2. Correspondence and Approximate Truth
  • 3. Mind and Body
  • 4. Other Minds
  • 5. God
  • 6. Summary
  • 7. Appendix: The Comparative Coherence of Materialism, Dualism, and Theism
  • 5. Ethics and Politics
  • 1. Deliberative Coherence
  • 2. Deductive Coherence
  • 3. Explanatory Coherence
  • 4. Analogical Coherence
  • 5. Making Sense of Ethics
  • 6. Putting It All Together
  • 7. The Coherence of Abortion
  • 8. Normative Issues
  • 9. Politics: Justifying the State
  • 10. What Kind of State?
  • 11. Conclusion
  • 12. Summary
  • 6. Emotion
  • 1. The Importance of Trust
  • 2. Coherence-Based Inference
  • 3. Emotional Coherence: Theory
  • 4. Emotional Coherence: Model
  • 5. Emotional Coherence and Trust
  • 6. Empathy
  • 7. Nationalism
  • 8. Metacoherence
  • 9. Beauty and Symmetry
  • 10. Humor
  • 11. Cognitive Therapy
  • 12. Evidence for Emotional Coherence Theory
  • 13. Normative Considerations
  • 14. Summary
  • 7. Consensus
  • 1. Consensus in Science and Medicine
  • 2. A Model of Consensus
  • 3. Consensus and the Causes of Ulcers
  • 4. Consensus and the Origin of the Moon
  • 5. Benefits of Consensus Conferences
  • 6. Consensus in Value Judgments
  • 7. Summary
  • 8. Probability
  • 1. Two Traditions in Causal Reasoning
  • 2. Probabilistic Networks
  • 3. Translating ECHO into Probabilistic Networks
  • 4. Tracking Probabilistic Problems with ECHO
  • 5. Conclusion
  • 6. Summary
  • 9. The Future of Coherence
  • References
  • Index

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