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Rationality and Intelligence

Autor Jonathan Baron
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iul 2005
What is intelligence? Can it be increased by teaching? If so, how, and what difference would an increase make? Before we can answer these questions, we need to clarify them. Jonathan Baron argues that when we do so we find that intelligence has much to do with rational thinking, and that the skills involved in rational thinking are in fact teachable, at least to some extent. Rationality and Intelligence develops and justifies a prescriptive theory of rational thinking in terms of utility theory and the theory of rational life plans. The prescriptive theory, buttressed by other assumptions, suggests that people generally think too little and in a way that is insufficiently critical of the initial possibilities that occur to them. However these biases can be - and sometimes are - corrected by education.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521017237
ISBN-10: 0521017238
Pagini: 308
Dimensiuni: 160 x 230 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Pbk.
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Rational choices and plans; 3. A theory of thinking; 4. The scheme fleshed out: a decision-theoretic analysis of thinking; 5. Conditions of effective thinking; 6. Effects of rational thinking on the individual and society; 7. The teaching of rational thinking; References; Index.

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Rationality and Intelligence develops and justifies a prescriptive theory of rational thinking in terms of utility theory and the theory of rational life plans.