Why Empathy Matters (Pocket)
avJ. D. Trout
ISBN: 9780143116615 - UTGIVEN: 201001A road map to empathic and efficient decisions and policies, constructed from new insights in the science of human judgment
Faced with another's suffering, human beings feel sympathy and may even be moved to charity. However, for all our good intentions and vaunted free will, we are lousy at ma[...]
Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgement (Pocket)
avMichael A. Bishop, J. D. Trout, Michael A. Bishop
ISBN: 9780195162301 - UTGIVEN: 2004-12Bishop and Trout here present a unique and provocative new approach to epistemology (the theory of human knowledge and reasoning). Their approach aims to liberate epistemology from the scholastic debates of standard analytic epistemology, and treat it as a branch of the philosophy of science. The ap[...]
Measuring the Intentional World (Häftad)
avJ.D. Trout
ISBN: 9780195166590 - UTGIVEN: 200305Scientific realism has been advanced as an interpretation of the natural sciences but never the behavioral sciences. This exciting book introduces a novel version of scientific realism - Measured Realism - that characterizes the kind of theoretical progress in the social and psychological sciences t[...]
The Theory of Knowledge (Pocket)
avPaul K. (EDT) Moser, Dwayne H. (EDT) Mulder, J. D. (EDT) Trout
ISBN: 9780195094664 - UTGIVEN: 1997-09This book is an accessible introduction to contemporary epistemology, the theory of knowledge. It introduces traditional topics in epistemology within the context of contemporary debates about the definition, sources, and limits of human knowledge. Rich in examples and written in an engaging style, [...]
