Reasoning Unbound

Thinking about Morality, Delusion and Democracy

Jean-François Bonnefon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

204 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-60048-6 (ISBN)

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This book argues that the science of reasoning will prove most useful if focused on studying what human reasoning does best - understanding people. Bonnefon argues that humanity's unique reasoning abilities developed in order to handle the complexities of cooperative social life. Accordingly, human beings became exquisite students of the minds of other people to predict the kind of decisions they make, and assess their character. In particular, this volume explores the inferences humans make about the moral character of others, how they delude themselves about their own moral character, and the ways in which they can see through the delusions of others. In conclusion, the book considers how to leverage the power of human reasoning in order to sustain democratic life.
This work will interest scholars and students working in fields including theory of mind, decision-making, moral cognition, critical thinking, experimental philosophy, and behaviouraleconomics, as well as policy makers interested in how reasoning impacts our political understanding.

Jean-François Bonnefon is a research psychologist affiliated with the Toulouse School of Economics, France. He is the author of more than 100 academic publications on rational thinking and behavior in the domains of psychology, computer science, philosophy, and economics.

1 Introduction.- 2 Is reasoning useful?.- 3 What is special about human reasoning?.- 4 Decisions.- 5 Morality.- 6 Delusions.- 7 Democracy.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.01.2018
Zusatzinfo	6 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 204 p. 6 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
Schlagworte	Behaviorally informed policies • Cooperation-motivated beliefs • how and why we judge others • how we look at other voters decisions • morality in politics • moral judgement • naive utility calculus model • psychology of democracy • psychology of intuition • rational speech act model • Reasoning • Self-deluded reasoning • study of Moral character • The Turing test • Thinking • What is special about human reasoning?
ISBN-10	1-137-60048-9 / 1137600489
ISBN-13	978-1-137-60048-6 / 9781137600486
Zustand	Neuware