Patterns of Rationality Recurring Inferences in Science, Social Cognition and Religious Thinking /

• Main Author: Bertolotti, Tommaso (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 19
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Religion.; Epistemology.; Philosophy and science.; Evolutionary biology.; Computational intelligence.; Cognitive psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Computational Intelligence.; Philosophy of Science.; Evolutionary Biology.; Religious Studies, general.

The book is an epistemological monograph written from a multidisciplinary perspective. It provides a complex and realistic picture of cognition and rationality, as endowments aimed at making sense and reacting smartly to one’s environment, be it epistemic, social or simply ecological. The first part...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I Science and Strategic Cognition
• Part II Cognitive Niches and Social Cognition: Using Knowledge as a Tool
• Part III The Eco-Cognitive Epistemology of Counterfactual Beliefs.