Bounded Thinking - Intellectual virtues for limited agents (Hardcover, New)

Bounded Thinking offers a new account of the virtues of limitation management: intellectual virtues of adapting to the fact that we cannot solve many problems that we can easily describe. Adam Morton argues that we do give one another guidance on managing our limitations, but that this has to be in terms of virtues and not of rules, and in terms of success-knowledge and accomplishment-rather than rationality. He establishes a taxonomy of intellectual virtues, which includes 'paradoxical virtues' that sound like vices, such as the virtue of ignoring evidence and the virtue of not thinking too hard. There are also virtues of not planning ahead, in that some forms of such planning require present knowledge of one's future knowledge that is arguably impossible. A person's best response to many problems depends not on the most rationally promising solution to solving them but on the most likely route to success given the profile of intellectual virtues that the person has and lacks. Morton illustrates his argument with discussions of several paradoxes and conundra. He closes the book with a discussion of intelligence and rationality, and argues that both have very limited usefulness in the evaluation of who will make progress on which problems.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2012
First published:	2013
Authors:	Adam Morton
Dimensions:	221 x 160 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	188
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-965853-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Decision theory > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
LSN:	0-19-965853-6
Barcode:	9780199658534

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