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Hot thought : mechanisms and applications of emotional cognition /
"In Hot Thought, Paul Thagard describes the mental mechanisms - cognitive, neural, molecular, and social - that interact to produce different kinds of human thinking, from everyday decision making to legal reasoning, scientific discovery, and religious belief, and he discusses when and how thin...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2006.
©2006 |
| Series: | Bradford book.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "In Hot Thought, Paul Thagard describes the mental mechanisms - cognitive, neural, molecular, and social - that interact to produce different kinds of human thinking, from everyday decision making to legal reasoning, scientific discovery, and religious belief, and he discusses when and how thinking and reasoning should be emotional." "Thagard argues that an understanding of emotional thinking needs to integrate the cognitive, neural, molecular, and social levels. Many of the chapters employ computational models of various levels of thinking, including HOTCO (hot cognition) models and the more neurologically realistic GAGE model. Thagard uses these models to illuminate thinking in the domains of law, science, and religion, discussing such topics as the role of doubt and reasonable doubt in legal and other contexts, valuable emotional habits for successful scientists, and the emotional content of religious beliefs. Identifying and assessing the impact of emotion, Thagard argues, can suggest ways to improve the process of reasoning."--Jacket |
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| Item Description: | "A Bradford book." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262284844 0262284847 1282098462 9781282098466 0262701243 9780262701242 1429410027 9781429410021 9786612098468 6612098465 0262303469 9780262303460 |
| Access: | Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff. |