The rational animal -- Food, sex, politics, and the rational animal -- The enigma of rationality: Fallen angel or risen ape? -- Kinds of minds -- Reflexes, homeostasis, and the autonomic mind -- The instinctive mind -- The associative mind: More than instincts, less than reason -- The reasoning mind: Propositional attitudes and coherence -- Reasoning with the cognitive mind -- Logical interference: Heuristic and analytical systems -- Conceptual interference in the real world: From science to politics -- The tethered mind -- The instinctive mind resurrected: Modularity, reciprocity, and blended response -- Kinds of brains: Of mice, monkeys, and men -- Feelings: Chocolate, lust, and coherence -- Control structures: Who is in charge of the tethered mind? -- What color is your bubble? Why changing minds is hard -- When failures of belief revision are less than motivated reasoning or sloppy reasoning -- Global belief revision is constrained by neural maturation -- What follows from the tethered mind? -- Concerns, consequences, and conclusions.
Summary:
"New theoretical model of human reasoning proposed by a leading researcher in the cognitive neurosciences. Explains why people are never fully rational in their decision-making"-- Provided by publisher. "A new, biologically driven model of human behavior in which reason is tethered to the evolutionarily older autonomic, instinctive, and associative systems. In Reason and Less, Vinod Goel explains the workings of the tethered mind. Reason does not float on top of our biology but is tethered to evolutionarily older autonomic, instinctive, and associative systems. After describing the conceptual and neuroanatomical basis of each system, Goel shows how they interact to generate a blended response. Goel's commonsense account drives human behavior back into the biology, where it belongs, and provides a richer set of tools for understanding how we pursue food, sex, and politics." -- Provided by publisher.
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