具体描述
Contrary to standard assumptions, reasoning is often an emotional process. Emotions can have good effects, as when a scientist gets excited about a line of research and pursues it successfully despite criticism. But emotions can also distort reasoning, as when a juror ignores evidence of guilt just because the accused seems like a nice guy. 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.
作者简介
Paul Thagard is Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Computer Science, and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of Coherence in Thought and Action (MIT Press, 2000) and Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science (second edition, MIT Press, 2005).
目录信息
Acknowledgments
I. Mechanisms
1. Mental Mechanisms
2. How to Make Decisions
3. Emotional Analogies and Analogical Inference
4. Emotional Gestalts: Appraisal, Change, and the Dynamics of Affect
5. Emotional Consensus in Group Decision Making
6. Spiking Phineas Gage: A Neurocomputational Theory of Cognitive-Affective Integration in Decision Making
7. How Molecules Matter to Mental Computation
II. Applications
8. Why Wasn't O.J. Convicted? Emotional Coherence in Legal Inference
9. What Is Doubt and When Is It Reasonable?
10. The Passionate Scientist: Emotion in Scientific Cognition
11. Curing Cancer? Patrick Lee's Path to the Reovirus Treatment
12. How to Be a Successful Scientist
13. Self-Deception and Emotional Coherence
14. The Emotional Coherence of Religion
15. Critique of Emotional Reason
16. New Directions
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