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Cognition, Agency and Rationality

Author : K. Korta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401710708
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Cognition, Agency and Rationality written by K. Korta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As usual, the Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Cognitive Science include leading-edge work by outstanding researchers in the field. This volume contains three kinds of papers corresponding to three of the main disciplines in cognitive science: philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence. The title - Cognition, Agency and Rationality - captures the main issues addressed by the papers. Of course, all are concerned with cognition, but some are especially centred on the very concept of rationality, while others focus on (multiple) agency. The diversity of their disciplinary origins and standpoints not only reflects the main topics and the range of different positions presented at ICCS-97, as well as demonstrating the richness, fruitfulness and diversity of research in cognitive science today.

Rational and Social Agency

Author : Manuel Vargas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199794510
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Rational and Social Agency written by Manuel Vargas and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Bratman's work has been unusually influential, with significance in disciplines as diverse as philosophy, computer science, law, and primatology.The essays in this volume engage with ideas and themes prominent in Bratman's work. The volume also includes a lengthy reply by Bratman that breaks new ground and deepens our understanding of the nature of action, rationality, and social agency.

Foundations of Rational Agency

Author : Michael Wooldridge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401592047
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Rational Agency written by Michael Wooldridge and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents an advanced, comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of the field of rational agency as it stands today. It covers the philosophical foundations of rational agency, logical and decision-theoretic approaches to rational agency, multi-agent aspects of rational agency and a number of approaches to programming rational agents. It will be of interest to researchers in logic, mainstream computer science, the philosophy of rational action and agency, and economics.

Bounded Rationality

Author : Gerd Gigerenzer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262571647
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Bounded Rationality written by Gerd Gigerenzer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-07-26 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a complex and uncertain world, humans and animals make decisions under the constraints of limited knowledge, resources, and time. Yet models of rational decision making in economics, cognitive science, biology, and other fields largely ignore these real constraints and instead assume agents with perfect information and unlimited time. About forty years ago, Herbert Simon challenged this view with his notion of "bounded rationality." Today, bounded rationality has become a fashionable term used for disparate views of reasoning. This book promotes bounded rationality as the key to understanding how real people make decisions. Using the concept of an "adaptive toolbox," a repertoire of fast and frugal rules for decision making under uncertainty, it attempts to impose more order and coherence on the idea of bounded rationality. The contributors view bounded rationality neither as optimization under constraints nor as the study of people's reasoning fallacies. The strategies in the adaptive toolbox dispense with optimization and, for the most part, with calculations of probabilities and utilities. The book extends the concept of bounded rationality from cognitive tools to emotions; it analyzes social norms, imitation, and other cultural tools as rational strategies; and it shows how smart heuristics can exploit the structure of environments.

Rational Constructivism in Cognitive Development

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Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123984637
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Rational Constructivism in Cognitive Development written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 43 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area of Rational Constructivism. Each chapter provides in-depth discussions, and this volume serves as an invaluable resource for Developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students. - Chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area - Rational Constructivism discussed in detail

Cognition, Content, and the A Priori

Author : Robert Hanna
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191025593
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cognition, Content, and the A Priori written by Robert Hanna and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cognition, Content, and the A Priori, Robert Hanna works out a unified contemporary Kantian theory of rational human cognition and knowledge. Along the way, he provides accounts of (i) intentionality and its contents, including non-conceptual content and conceptual content, (ii) sense perception and perceptual knowledge, including perceptual self-knowledge, (iii) the analytic-synthetic distinction, (iv) the nature of logic, and (v) a priori truth and knowledge in mathematics, logic, and philosophy. This book is specifically intended to reach out to two very different audiences: contemporary analytic philosophers of mind and knowledge on the one hand, and contemporary Kantian philosophers or Kant-scholars on the other. At the same time, it is also riding the crest of a wave of exciting and even revolutionary emerging new trends and new work in the philosophy of mind and epistemology, with a special concentration on the philosophy of perception. What is revolutionary in this new wave are its strong emphases on action, on cognitive phenomenology, on disjunctivist direct realism, on embodiment, and on sense perception as a primitive and proto-rational capacity for cognizing the world. Cognition, Content, and the A Priori makes a fundamental contribution to this philosophical revolution by giving it a specifically contemporary Kantian twist, and by pushing these new lines of investigation radically further.

The Evolution of Agency

Author : Michael Tomasello
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262047004
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Agency written by Michael Tomasello and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading developmental psychologist proposes an evolutionary pathway to human psychological agency. Nature cannot build organisms biologically prepared for every contingency they might possibly encounter. Instead, Nature builds some organisms to function as feedback control systems that pursue goals, make informed behavioral decisions about how best to pursue those goals in the current situation, and then monitor behavioral execution for effectiveness. Nature builds psychological agents. In a bold new theoretical proposal, Michael Tomasello advances a typology of the main forms of psychological agency that emerged on the evolutionary pathway to human beings. Tomasello outlines four main types of psychological agency and describes them in evolutionary order of emergence. First was the goal-directed agency of ancient vertebrates, then came the intentional agency of ancient mammals, followed by the rational agency of ancient great apes, ending finally in the socially normative agency of ancient humans. Each new form of psychological organization represented increased complexity in the planning, decision-making, and executive control of behavior. Each also led to new types of experience of the environment and, in some cases, of the organism’s own psychological functioning, leading ultimately to humans’ experience of an objective and normative world that governs all of their thoughts and actions. Together, these proposals constitute a new theoretical framework that both broadens and deepens current approaches in evolutionary psychology.

The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)

Author : Robert A. Wilson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262731447
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) written by Robert A. Wilson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-09-04 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s the cognitive sciences have offered multidisciplinary ways of understanding the mind and cognition. The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) is a landmark, comprehensive reference work that represents the methodological and theoretical diversity of this changing field. At the core of the encyclopedia are 471 concise entries, from Acquisition and Adaptationism to Wundt and X-bar Theory. Each article, written by a leading researcher in the field, provides an accessible introduction to an important concept in the cognitive sciences, as well as references or further readings. Six extended essays, which collectively serve as a roadmap to the articles, provide overviews of each of six major areas of cognitive science: Philosophy; Psychology; Neurosciences; Computational Intelligence; Linguistics and Language; and Culture, Cognition, and Evolution. For both students and researchers, MITECS will be an indispensable guide to the current state of the cognitive sciences.

Inquiry Under Bounds

Author : David Thorstad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198886160
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Inquiry Under Bounds written by David Thorstad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Herbert Simon held that the fundamental turn in the study of bounded rationality is the turn from substantive to procedural rationality. Theories of substantive rationality begin with normative questions about attitudes: what should we prefer, intend, or believe? By contrast, theories of procedural rationality begin with normative questions about processes of inquiry: how should we determine what to prefer, intend, or believe? If Simon was right, then the central task for theories of bounded rationality is to develop an account of rational inquiry for bounded agents. We need, that is, a theory of inquiry under bounds. Inquiry Under Bounds takes as its starting point a five-point bounded rationality program inspired by recent work in cognitive science. To elaborate on and defend that program, Thorstad argues we need an account of rational inquiry for bounded agents. Inquiry under bounds develops an account of rational inquiry for bounded agents: the reason-responsiveness consequentialist view. I use this account to clarify and defend key insights from the bounded tradition as well as to shed light on recent controversies in the epistemology of inquiry.

Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation

Author : Stephen Petro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319022857
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation written by Stephen Petro and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the overlooked but vital theoretical relationships between R. M. Hare, Alan Gewirth, and Jürgen Habermas. The author claims their accounts of value, while failing to address classic virtue-theoretical critiques, bear the seeds of a resolution to the ultimate question “What is most valuable?” These dialectical approaches, as claimed, justify a reinterpretation of value and value judgment according to the Carnapian conception of an empirical-linguistic framework or grammar. Through a further synthesis with the work of Philippa Foot and Thomas Magnell, the author shows that “value” would be literally meaningless without four fundamental phenomena which constitute such a framework: Logical Judgment, Conceptual Synthesis, Conceptual Abstraction, and Freedom. As part of the 'grammar of goodness,' the excellence of these phenomena, in a highly concrete way, constitute the essence of the greatest good, as this book explains.

Economic Theory and Cognitive Science

Author : Don Ross
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262681684
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Economic Theory and Cognitive Science written by Don Ross and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-01-26 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Don Ross explores the relationship of economics to other branches of behavioral science, asking, in the course of his analysis, under what interpretation economics is a sound empirical science. The book explores the relationships between economic theory and the theoretical foundations of related disciplines that are relevant to the day-to-day work of economics—the cognitive and behavioral sciences. It asks whether the increasingly sophisticated techniques of microeconomic analysis have revealed any deep empirical regularities—whether technical improvement represents improvement in any other sense. Casting Daniel Dennett and Kenneth Binmore as its intellectual heroes, the book proposes a comprehensive model of economic theory that, Ross argues, does not supplant, but recovers the core neoclassical insights, and counters the caricaturish conception of neoclassicism so derided by advocates of behavioral or evolutionary economics. Because he approaches his topic from the viewpoint of the philosophy of science, Ross devotes one chapter to the philosophical theory and terminology on which his argument depends and another to related philosophical issues. Two chapters provide the theoretical background in economics, one covering developments in neoclassical microeconomics and the other treating behavioral and experimental economics and evolutionary game theory. The three chapters at the heart of the argument then apply theses from the philosophy of cognitive science to foundational problems for economic theory. In these chapters, economists will find a genuinely new way of thinking about the implications of cognitive science for economics, and cognitive scientists will find in economic behavior, a new testing site for the explanations of cognitive science.

Proceedings of KogWis 2012. 11th Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society

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Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
ISBN 13 : 3863091019
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of KogWis 2012. 11th Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society written by and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cognition Through Understanding

Author : Tyler Burge
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199672024
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Cognition Through Understanding written by Tyler Burge and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognition Through Understanding presents a selection of Tyler Burge's essays on cognition, thought, and language. The essays collected here use epistemology as a way of interpreting underlying powers of mind, and focus on four types of cognition that are warranted through understanding: self-knowledge, interlocution, reasoning, and reflection.

Cognition, Rationality, and Institutions

Author : Manfred E. Streit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642597831
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Cognition, Rationality, and Institutions written by Manfred E. Streit and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutions are rules that are supported by various enforcement mechanisms. Cognition refers to the process of how men perceive and process information, whereas rationality refers to how these processes are modelled. Within institutional economics there is a growing scepticism towards extending the conventional economic frame of analysis to institutions. In particular, the notion of perfect rationality is increasingly questioned. At the same time human cognition has become a major field of research in psychology. This book explores what institutional economics can learn from cognitive psychology regarding the proper modelling of rationality in order to explain institutional change.

Shadows of Ethics

Author : Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822323204
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Shadows of Ethics written by Geoffrey Galt Harpham and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays on our contemporary tendency to revisit Enlightenment concerns and the ways attributes of the 'highest'--reason, ethics, high cultural aesthetics, even theory--have become implicated with and confused with the 'lowes

Rational and Social Agency

Author : Manuel Vargas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199794669
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Rational and Social Agency written by Manuel Vargas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Bratman's work has been unusually influential, with significance in disciplines as diverse as philosophy, computer science, law, and primatology. This is a collection of critical essays by some of contemporary philosophy's most distinguished figures, including Margaret Gilbert, Richard Holton, Christine Korsgaard, Alfred Mele, Elijah Milgram, Kieran Setiya, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Scott Shapiro, Michael Smith, J. David Velleman, R. Jay Wallace. It also contains an introduction by the editors, situating Bratman's work and its broader significance. The essays in this volume engage with ideas and themes prominent in Bratman's work. The volume also includes a lengthy reply by Bratman that breaks new ground and deepens our understanding of the nature of action, rationality, and social agency.

Stich and His Critics

Author : Dominic Murphy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405112077
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Stich and His Critics written by Dominic Murphy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a collection of original essays from leading philosophicalscholars, Stich and His Critics provides a thoroughassessment of the key themes in the career of philosopher StephenStich. Provides a collection of original essays from some of theworld's most distinguished philosophers Explores some of philosophy's most hotly-debated contemporarytopics, including mental representation, theory of mind, nativism,moral philosophy, and naturalized epistemology