TY - BOOK ID - 973561 TI - Coherence in thought and action PY - 2002 SN - 0262201313 0262700921 0262284820 0585446024 9780262284820 9780585446028 9780262201315 9780262700924 PB - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, DB - UniCat KW - Theory of knowledge KW - Truth KW - Speculative Philosophy KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Coherence theory KW - Coherence theory. KW - Coherence theory of truth KW - COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General KW - PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General KW - Biology KW - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:973561 AB - This book is an essay on how people make sense of each other and the world they live in. Making sense is the activity of fitting something puzzling into a coherent pattern of mental representations that include concepts, beliefs, goals, and actions. Paul Thagard proposes a general theory of coherence as the satisfaction of multiple interacting constraints, and discusses the theory's numerous psychological and philosophical applications. Much of human cognition can be understood in terms of coherence as constraint satisfaction, and many of the central problems of philosophy can be given coherence-based solutions. Thagard shows how coherence can help to unify psychology and philosophy, particularly when addressing questions of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. He also shows how coherence can integrate cognition and emotion. ER -