"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"--
"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"--
Preface xi Acknowledgements xiii I The Rational Animal 1 Food, Sex, Politics, and the Rational Animal 3 2 The Enigma of Rationality: Fallen Angel or Risen Ape? 27 II Kinds of Minds 3 Reflexes, Homeostasis, and the Autonomic Mind 41 4 The Instinctive Mind 49 5 The Associative Mind: More than Instincts, Less than Reason 71 6 The Reasoning Mind: Propositional Attitudes and Coherence 95 III Reasoning with the Cognitive Mind 7 Logical Inference: Heuristic and Analytical Systems 125 8 Conceptual Inference in the Real World: From Science to Politics 143 IV The Tethered Mind 9 The Instinctive Mind Resurrected: Modularity, Reciprocity, and Blended Response 161 10 Kinds of Brains: Of Mice, Monkeys, and Men 191 11 Feelings: Chocolate, Lust, and Coherence 221 12 Control Structures: Who Is in Charge of the Tethered Mind? 253 V What Color Is Your Bubble? Why Changing Minds Is Hard 13 When Failures of Belief Revision Are Less than Motivated Reasoning or Sloppy Reasoning 281 14 Global Belief Revision Is Constrained by Neural Maturation 309 VI What Follows from the Tethered Mind? 15 Concerns, Consequences, and Conclusions 331 Notes 341 Bibliography 353 Index 403
Preface xi Acknowledgements xiii I The Rational Animal 1 Food, Sex, Politics, and the Rational Animal 3 2 The Enigma of Rationality: Fallen Angel or Risen Ape? 27 II Kinds of Minds 3 Reflexes, Homeostasis, and the Autonomic Mind 41 4 The Instinctive Mind 49 5 The Associative Mind: More than Instincts, Less than Reason 71 6 The Reasoning Mind: Propositional Attitudes and Coherence 95 III Reasoning with the Cognitive Mind 7 Logical Inference: Heuristic and Analytical Systems 125 8 Conceptual Inference in the Real World: From Science to Politics 143 IV The Tethered Mind 9 The Instinctive Mind Resurrected: Modularity, Reciprocity, and Blended Response 161 10 Kinds of Brains: Of Mice, Monkeys, and Men 191 11 Feelings: Chocolate, Lust, and Coherence 221 12 Control Structures: Who Is in Charge of the Tethered Mind? 253 V What Color Is Your Bubble? Why Changing Minds Is Hard 13 When Failures of Belief Revision Are Less than Motivated Reasoning or Sloppy Reasoning 281 14 Global Belief Revision Is Constrained by Neural Maturation 309 VI What Follows from the Tethered Mind? 15 Concerns, Consequences, and Conclusions 331 Notes 341 Bibliography 353 Index 403
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