The Rational Animal

Author : Douglas T. Kenrick,Vladas Griskevicius
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780465040971

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The Rational Animal by Douglas T. Kenrick,Vladas Griskevicius Pdf

Why are Amazonian hunter-gatherers better at logic than Harvard students? Why did the Zambian president reject food donations during a famine? And why do billionaires work so hard—only to give their hard-earned money away? In this animated tour of the latest in behavioral science, psychologist Douglas T. Kenrick and marketing professor Vladas Griskevicius argue that while our decision making may seem superficially irrational, our misjudgments are the result of a psychological mismatch between ancestral drives for survival and our modern lifestyles. Ultimately, The Rational Animal offers an uplifting message—that while our brains may still house caveman impulses, we have evolved to be smarter than we think.

Author : Douglas T Kenrick,Vladas Griskevicius
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780465040971

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The Rational Animal by Douglas T Kenrick,Vladas Griskevicius Pdf

Why do three out of four professional football players go bankrupt? How can illiterate jungle dwellers pass a test that tricks Harvard philosophers? And why do billionaires work so hard -- only to give their hard-earned money away? When it comes to making decisions, the classic view is that humans are eminently rational. But growing evidence suggests instead that our choices are often irrational, biased, and occasionally even moronic. Which view is right -- or is there another possibility? In this animated tour of the inner workings of the mind, psychologist Douglas T. Kenrick and business professor Vladas Griskevicius challenge the prevailing views of decision making, and present a new alternative grounded in evolutionary science. By connecting our modern behaviors to their ancestral roots, they reveal that underneath our seemingly foolish tendencies is an exceptionally wise system of decision making. From investing money to choosing a job, from buying a car to choosing a romantic partner, our choices are driven by deep-seated evolutionary goals. Because each of us has multiple evolutionary goals, though, new research reveals something radical -- there's more than one "you" making decisions. Although it feels as if there is just one single "self" inside your head, your mind actually contains several different subselves, each one steering you in a different direction when it takes its turn at the controls. The Rational Animal will transform the way you think about decision making. And along the way, you'll discover the intimate connections between ovulating strippers, Wall Street financiers, testosterone-crazed skateboarders, Steve Jobs, Elvis Presley, and you.

Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812697056

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Dependent Rational Animals by Alasdair MacIntyre Pdf

"MacIntyre--one of the foremost ethicists of the past half-century--makes a sustained argument for the cetnrality, in well-lived human lives, of both virtue and local communities of giving and receiving. He criticizes the mainstream of Western ethics, including his own previous position, for not taking seriously the dependent and animal sides of human nature, thereby overemphasizing the powers of reason and the pursuit of reason and the pursuit of autonomy. . . . This important work in ethics is essential for the professional philosopher and is highly readable for students at all levels and for thoughtful citizens." --Choice

Author : Alasdair C. MacIntyre
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812694529

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Dependent Rational Animals by Alasdair C. MacIntyre Pdf

In Dependent Rational Animals, Alasdair MacIntyre compares humans to other intelligent animals, ultimately drawing remarkable conclusions about human social life and our treatment of those whom he argues we should no longer call "disabled." MacIntyre argues that human beings are independent, practical reasoners, but they are also dependent animals who must learn from each other in order to remain largely independent. To flourish, humans must acknowledge the importance of dependence and independence, both of which are developed in and through social relationships. This requires the development of a local community in which individuals discover their own "goods" through the discovery of a common Good.

Author : Edo Pivčević
Publisher : UPA
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780761867937

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Man the Rational Animal by Edo Pivčević Pdf

This challenging and refreshingly innovative book addresses certain fundamental questions concerning rational legitimacy of some widely held beliefs and provides argument-based answers to such questions, while at the same time encouraging the reader to actively engage with the views put forward and form his/her own judgement.

Author : Mark Okrent
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780821417430

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Rational Animals by Mark Okrent Pdf

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Author : Anselm Oelze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Animal intelligence
ISBN : 9004363629

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Animal Rationality by Anselm Oelze Pdf

In Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350, Anselm Oelze offers the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of theories of animal rationality in the later Middle Ages. Traditionally, it was held that medieval thinkers ascribed rationality to humans while denying it to nonhuman animals. As Oelze shows, this narrative fails to capture the depth and diversity of the medieval debate. Although many thinkers, from Albert the Great to John Buridan, did indeed hold that nonhuman animals lack rational faculties, some granted them the ability to engage in certain rational processes such as judging, reasoning, or employing prudence. There is thus a whole spectrum of positions to be discovered, many of which show interesting parallels with contemporary theories of animal rationality.

Author : Geert Keil,Nora Kreft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107192690

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Aristotle's Anthropology by Geert Keil,Nora Kreft Pdf

The first collection of essays on Aristotle's philosophy of human nature, covering the metaphysical, biological and ethical works.

Author : Susan Hurley,Matthew Nudds
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 0198528272

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Rational Animals? by Susan Hurley,Matthew Nudds Pdf

To what extent can animal behaviour be described as rational? What does it even mean to describe behaviour as rational? This book focuses on one of the major debates in science today - how closely does mental processing in animals resemble mental processing in humans. It addresses the question of whether and to what extent non-human animals are rational, that is, whether any animal behaviour can be regarded as the result of a rational thought processes. It does this with attention to three key questions, which recur throughout the book and which have both empirical and philosophical aspects: What kinds of behavioural tasks can animals successfully perform? What if any mental processes must be postulated to explain their performance at these tasks? What properties must processes have to count as rational? The book is distinctive in pursuing these questions not only in relation to our closest relatives, the primates, whose intelligence usually gets the most attention, but also in relation to birds and dolphins, where striking results are also being obtained. Some chapters focus on a particular species. They describe some of the extraordinary and complex behaviour of these species - using tools in novel ways to solve foraging problems, for example, or behaving in novel ways to solve complex social problems - and ask whether such behaviour should be explained in rational or merely mechanistic terms. Other chapters address more theoretical issues and ask,for example, what it means for behaviour to be rational, and whether rationality can be understood in the absence of language. The book includes many of the world's leading figures doing empirical work on rationality in primates, dolphins, and birds, as well as distinguished philosophers of mind and science. The book includes an editors' introduction which summarises the philosophical and empirical work presented, and draws together the issues discussed by the contributors.

Author : Antony Flew
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Human beings
ISBN : UCAL:B4421099

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A Rational Animal and Other Philosophical Essays on the Nature of Man by Antony Flew Pdf

Author : Tom Regan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520054601

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The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan Pdf

THE argument for animal rights, a classic since its appearance in 1983, from the moral philosophical point of view. With a new preface.

Author : Gregory B Stone,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032173335

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Guido Cavalcanti by Gregory B Stone,Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

This book features a radically unprecedented interpretation of Donna me prega, starkly opposed to all previous accounts: far from treating love as a threat to reason that would best be eliminated, the canzone praises loving as the essential operation of rational human flourishing.

Author : Preston Stovall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000434002

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The Single-Minded Animal by Preston Stovall Pdf

This book provides an account of discursive or reason-governed cognition, by synthesizing research in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and evolutionary anthropology. Using the grasp of a natural language as a model for the autonomous or self-governed rationality of discursive cognition, the author uses a semantics for individual intentions, shared intentions, and normative attitudes as a framework for understanding what it is to be a rational animal. This semantics interprets claims about shared intentions and claims about what people ought and may do as the expression of plans of action that involve taking the points of view of other people within a community. This has important consequences for our understanding of both the natural basis and the social relevance of intentional and normative mental states. In order to distinguish the strong and weak modal force, which characterizes normativity but not shared intentionality, the author argues that a notion of single-minded practical cognition is necessary. This account of single-mindedness is then used to shed light on the autonomy or self-government characteristic of discursive cognition, as manifest in a linguistic community whose members are able to adopt the standpoints of others. Drawing together research in philosophy and the related sciences, the formal account of the semantic content of the claims we use to give expression to shared intentional and normative mental states integrates well with research in cognitive science, evolutionary anthropology, and social psychology concerning the ontogenetic and phylogenetic development of shared intentionality and norm psychology in human beings and other primates. The Single-Minded Animal will appeal to researchers and advanced students working on shared intentionality, normativity, rationality, cognitive science, social and developmental psychology, and evolutionary anthropology.

Author : Gilbert Ryle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Reason
ISBN : LCCN:lc67009255

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A Rational Animal by Gilbert Ryle Pdf

Author : Gilbert 1900-1976 Ryle
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014097355

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A Rational Animal by Gilbert 1900-1976 Ryle Pdf

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