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Intuitively Rational How We Think and How We Should


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English | April 9, 2024 | ISBN: 3031497147 | 228 pages | MOBI | 0.72 Mb
This book is about the respective roles of intuition and reasoning in ethics. It responds to a number of well-known philosophers and psychologists, and proposes a new perspective – radical in its moderation. It examines in depth the work of the philosopher Joshua Greene and the psychologist Jonathan Haidt. With the so-called empirical turn in ethics, much work has been done to try to isolate the role of reason and intuition in forming our moral judgements, with Haidt and Greene leading the research programmes and attracting much of the professional and public attention, and many others following. The current view – shared by both camps – is that intuition is largely the driver of our moral judgements – a view summed up in Haidt’s slogan ‘intuition first, strategic reasoning second’. Haidt believes we have to live with this and accept it. Greene does not: he contends that our intuitions, while suitable for the environments in which we evolved, are worthless in the modern, global, technological age, and to avoid ethical disaster we must learn to adopt reason as the arbiter of moral truth. This book steers a middle course between these two positions and is therefore of great interest to philosophers and psychologists alike.

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Think Rich to Get Rich A Guide to Transforming Your Mind and Making Money


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English | ASIN : B00VXLLT64 | 2015 | 29 pages | EPUB | 111 KB
You do not need to be rich to think rich, but you need to think rich to get rich. This book is for people who want to change the way they think so that they can begin to live life on their terms. It will help them to look deeply within themselves and examine the beliefs and values that are subconsciously holding them back. Different people think in different ways: the poor think like the poor, the middle class think like the middle class, and the rich think like the rich. This book will teach you to think rich.

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Think A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy


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English | March 22, 2013 | ISBN: 0192854259 | 320 pages | PDF | 1.45 Mb
Here at last is a coherent, unintimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscape of Western philosophy. Written expressly for "anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to

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Monsters, Think. A Pixar Movies Quiz Book


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English | July 17, 2020 | ISBN: 8666469919 | 105 pages | MOBI | 0.19 Mb
Do you know each one of Pixar’s films Inside Out? Do you know your Finding Dory from your Toy Story? Your Lotso from your Coco? Your Jack-Jack from your Knick Knack?

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Think to New Worlds


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 0226831485 | 394 Pages | PDF (True) | 27 MB
Flying saucers. Bigfoot. Frogs raining from the sky. Such phenomena fascinated Charles Fort, the maverick writer who scanned newspapers, journals, and magazines for reports of bizarre occurrences: dogs that talked, vampires, strange visions in the sky, and paranormal activity. His books of anomalies advanced a philosophy that saw science as a small part of a larger system in which truth and falsehood continually transformed into one another. His work found a ragged following of skeptics who questioned not only science but the press, medicine, and politics. Though their worldviews varied, they shared compelling questions about genius, reality, and authority. At the center of this community was adman, writer, and enfant terrible Tiffany Thayer, who founded the Fortean Society and ran it for almost three decades, collecting and reporting on every manner of oddity and conspiracy.

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Think And Grow Vegan


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English | 2019 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 1916118801 | EPUB | 1,3 mb
Thinking about reducing your meat intake or moving towards a plant-based diet? In this book, discover how to make the transition from meat eater to plant-based gradually.

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Causal Models How People Think about the World and Its Alternatives


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English | 2005 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 0195183118, 0195394291 | PDF | 2,2 mb
Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause and effect, between action and outcome. In cognitive terms, how do people construct and reason with the causal models we use to represent our world? A revolution is occurring in how statisticians, philosophers, and computer scientists answer this question. Those fields have ushered in new insights about causal models by thinking about how to represent causal structure mathematically, in a framework that uses graphs and probability theory to develop what are called causal Bayesian networks. The framework starts with the idea that the purpose of causal structure is to understand and predict the effects of intervention. How does intervening on one thing affect other things? This is not a question merely about probability (or logic), but about action. The framework offers a new understanding of mind: Thought is about the effects of intervention and cognition is thus intimately tied to actions that take place either in the actual physical world or in imagination, in counterfactual worlds. The book offers a conceptual introduction to the key mathematical ideas, presenting them in a non-technical way, focusing on the intuitions rather than the theorems. It tries to show why the ideas are important to understanding how people explain things and why thinking not only about the world as it is but the world as it could be is so central to human action. The book reviews the role of causality, causal models, and intervention in the basic human cognitive functions: decision making, reasoning, judgment, categorization, inductive inference, language, and learning. In short, the book offers a discussion about how people think, talk, learn, and explain things in causal terms, in terms of action and manipulation.

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