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Patterns of Rationality - Recurring Inferences in Science, Social Cognition and Religious Thinking (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015)
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Patterns of Rationality - Recurring Inferences in Science, Social Cognition and Religious Thinking (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015)
Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 19
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This book proposes an applied epistemological framework for
investigating science, social cognition and religious thinking
based on inferential patterns that recur in the different domains.
It presents human rationality as a tool that allows us to make
sense of our (physical or social) surroundings. It shows that the
resulting cognitive activity produces a broad spectrum of outputs,
such as scientific models and experimentation, gossip and social
networks, but also ancient and contemporary deities. The book
consists of three parts, the first of which addresses scientific
modeling and experimentation, and their application to the analysis
of scientific rationality. Thus, this part continues the tradition
of eco-cognitive epistemology and abduction studies. The second
part deals with the relationship between social cognition and
cognitive niche construction, i.e. the evolutionarily relevant
externalization of knowledge onto the environment, while the third
part focuses on what is commonly defined as “irrational”, thus
being in a way dialectically opposed to the first part. Here, the
author demonstrates that the “irrational” can be analyzed by
applying the same epistemological approach used to study scientific
rationality and social cognition; also in this case, we see the
emergence of patterns of rationality that regulate the
relationships between agents and their environment. All in all, the
book offers a coherent and unitary account of human rationality,
providing a basis for new conceptual connections and theoretical
speculations.
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