Rationality & Reflective Mind C

by Keith E. Stanovich

In Rationality and the Reflective Mind, Keith Stanovich attempts to resolve the Great Rationality Debate in cognitive science--the debate about how much irrationality to ascribe to human cognition. He shows how the insights of dual-process theory and evolutionary psychology can be combined to explain why humans are sometimes irrational even though they possess remarkably adaptive cognitive machinery. Stanovich argues that to fully characterize differences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195341147
• ISBN13: 9780195341140
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"