Raymond S Nickerson

Aspects of Rationality

Reflections on What It Means To Be Rational and Whether We Are

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9781138006287
• ISBN-10: 1138006289
• Artikelnr.: 40821867

Autorenporträt

Raymond S. Nickerson , retired senior vice president of Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. and research professor at Tufts University, is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. He is the founding editor of The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, the founding and series editor of Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics, an annual publication of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the author of several books, including Mathematical Reasoning: Patterns, Problems, Conjectures, and Proofs (Psychology Press, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1. What is Rationality? 2. The Search for Standards of Rationality. 3.
Intelligence and Knowledge. 4. Beliefs. 5. Goals, Value, and Affect. 6.
Explanations. 7. Preferences and Judgment. 8. Decision and Choice. 9.
Understanding and Wisdom. 10. The Relativity of Rationality. 11.
Conclusions and a View.