Rationality and the Reflective Mind - Keith Stanovich - Books - Oxford University Press Inc - 9780195341140 - February 3, 2011
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Rationality and the Reflective Mind

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In this book, Keith Stanovich attempts to resolve the Great Rationality Debate in cognitive science-the debate about how much irrationality to ascribe to human cognition. Stanovich shows how the insights of dual-process theory and evolutionary psychology can be combined to explain why humans are sometimes irrational even though they possess cognitive machinery of remarkable adaptiveness. Using a unique individual differences approach, Stanovich shows that to fullycharacterize differences in rational thinking, the traditional System 2 of dual-process theory must be partitioned into the reflective mind and the algorithmic mind. Using a new tripartite model of mind, Stanovich shows how rationality is a more encompassing construct than intelligence-when both areproperly defined-and that IQ tests fail to assess individual differences in rational thought. Stanovich discusses the types of thinking processes that would be measured in an assessment of rational thinking.


344 pages, Illustrations

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released February 3, 2011
ISBN13 9780195341140
Publishers Oxford University Press Inc
Pages 344
Dimensions 174 × 244 × 22 mm   ·   646 g
Language English  

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