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Price: $68.00
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Sale: $34.17
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Simon Parsons
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 006.3
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Publication Date: 2001-08-01
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: In this book Simon Parsons describes qualitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty, "uncertainty" being a catch-all term for various types of imperfect information. The advantage of qualitative methods is that they do not require precise numerical information. Instead, they work with abstractions such as interval values and information about how values change. The author does not invent completely new methods for reasoning under uncertainty but provides the means to create qualitative versions of existing methods. To illustrate this, he develops qualitative versions of probability theory, possibility theory, and the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence. According to Parsons, these theories are best considered complementary rather than exclusive. Thus the book supports the contention that rather than search for the one best method to handle all imperfect information, one should use whichever method best fits the problem. This approach leads naturally to the use of several different methods in the solution of a single problem and to the complexity of integrating the results--a problem to which qualitative methods provide a solution.
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $49.60
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John R. Searle
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 128.33
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Publication Date: 2001-10-01
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Reading Level: 342
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Description: The study of rationality and practical reason, or rationality in action, has been central to Western intellectual culture. In this invigorating book, John Searle lays out six claims of what he calls the Classical Model of rationality and shows why they are false. He then presents an alternative theory of the role of rationality in thought and action.
A central point of Searle's theory is that only irrational actions are directly caused by beliefs and desires—for example, the actions of a person in the grip of an obsession or addiction. In most cases of rational action, there is a gap between the motivating desire and the actual decision making. The traditional name for this gap is "freedom of the will." According to Searle, all rational activity presupposes free will. For rationality is possible only where one has a choice among various rational as well as irrational options.
Unlike many philosophical tracts, Rationality in Action invites the reader to apply the author's ideas to everyday life. Searle shows, for example, that contrary to the traditional philosophical view, weakness of will is very common. He also points out the absurdity of the claim that rational decision making always starts from a consistent set of desires. Rational decision making, he argues, is often about choosing between conflicting reasons for action. In fact, humans are distinguished by their ability to be rationally motivated by desire-independent reasons for action. Extending his theory of rationality to the self, Searle shows how rational deliberation presupposes an irreducible notion of the self. He also reveals the idea of free will to be essentially a thesis of how the brain works.
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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $8.50
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Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Douglas N. Walton
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Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 160
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Publication Date: 1997-12
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Reading Level: 281
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Description: Designed to be a pragmatic approach, based on developments in argumentative theory, and analyzing appeal to expert opinion as a form of argument. The book identifies the requirements that make an appeal to expert opinion a reasonable or unreasonable argument.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $8.79
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Manufacturer: Arco
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Peterson's
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Publisher: Arco
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Edition: 18th
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Dewey Decimal Number: 378.1662
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Publication Date: 2004-10-31
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Reading Level: 254
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Description: This book is now out of print. Please see ISBN 0768924077 for latest edition.
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Price: $29.01
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Sale: $18.69
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Manufacturer: LDA
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mike Fleetham
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Publisher: LDA
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Publication Date: 2007-01-25
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: Including 27 stories, this work helps you to develop the following skills: information processing, reasoning, enquiry, creativity, evaluation and metacognition.
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Sale: $9.99
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Manufacturer: Midwest Publications
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Anita Harnadek
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Publisher: Midwest Publications
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Publication Date: 1978
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Reading Level: 30
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Price: $32.95
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Sale: $31.00
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Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ashok K. Gangadean
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Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 110
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Publication Date: 1998-02
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Reading Level: 386
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Price: $99.00
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Sale: $77.49
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jon Elster
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 128.4
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Publication Date: 2000-04-13
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: This provocative book argues that, very often, people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant. The three long essays that constitute this book revise and expand the ideas developed in Jon Elster's classic study Ulysses and the Sirens. It is not simply a new edition of the earlier book though; many of the issues merely touched on before are explored here in much more detail. Elster shows how seemingly disparate examples that limit freedom of action reveal similar patterns, so much so that he proposes a new field of study: constraint theory. The book is written in Elster's characteristically vivid style and will interest professionals and students in philosophy, political science, psychology, and economics.
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Manufacturer: D. McKay Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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Author: Robert B Huber
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Publisher: D. McKay Co
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Publication Date: 1969
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Reading Level: 392
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Description: A basic text for citizens, professionals and debaters of all types. This book introduces readers to the basic types of arguments and how to criticize and engage them, including induction, deduction, and causation. Readers will be familiarized with the ways in which advocates support their arguments and how to criticize and engage these forms of support, including historical data, statistics, examples, anecdotes, expert testimony and common experience. Readers will also encounter how to prepare for argumentative situations and how to conduct themselves within them, including debates, panel discussions, public speeches and informal settings. The original 1964 text has been updated and filled with new examples and activities.
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Price: $90.00
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Sale: $192.69
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Anne Thomson
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 160
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Publication Date: 1996-12-26
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Reading Level: 177
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Description: Reasoning is the everyday process through which all of us draw conclusions from facts or evidence. To think critically about what you read and hear is a vital skill for everyone, whether you are a student or not. When we are faced with texts, news items or speeches, what is being said is often obscured by the words used and we are unsure whether ourselves and others are reasoning well. By the end of this topical and exercise-based introduction to critical thinking, you will be able to * confidently answer exercises to identify flaws in arguments * analyse reasoning in newspaper articles, books or speeches * approach any topic with the ability to reason clearly and think critically This stimulating introduction to reasoning will interest all those with a concern in improving their reasoning skills, whether at work or in the classroom and requires on specialist knowledge.
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