The Mystery of Rationality Mind, Beliefs and the Social Sciences /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bronner, Gérald (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Di Iorio, Francesco (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Philosophy of mind.; Cognitive psychology.; Industrial psychology.; Neural networks (Computer science) .; Sociology.; Philosophy of Mind.; Cognitive Psychology.; Industrial and Organizational Psychology.; Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks.; Sociology, general.

This book contributes to the developing dialogue between cognitive science and social sciences. It focuses on a central issue in both fields, i.e. the nature and the limitations of the rationality of beliefs and action. The development of cognitive science is one of the most important and fascinatin...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Rationality as an Enigmatic concept
• Our Agenda and Its Rationality
• Intentional, unintentional and sub-intentional aspects of "social mechanisms"
• On the Explanation of Human Action: "Good reasons", critical rationalism and argumentation theory
• Rationality, Irrationality, Realism and the Good
• First Generation Behavioral Economists on Rationality, and Its Limits
• Embodied rationality
• Rational Choice Explained and Defended
• Rationality and irrationality revisited or Intellectualism vindicated or how stands the problem of the rationality of magic?
• Rational life plans?