Reasons, Explanations, and Decisions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reasons, Explanations, and Decisions write by Thomas J. McKay. This book was released on 2000. Reasons, Explanations, and Decisions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text provides a guide for students to develop their evaluation abilities and to consider their beliefs in a mature and intelligent way. It includes examples and exercises which strengthen critical and expository abilities.
Thinking and Reasoning
Thinking and Reasoning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thinking and Reasoning write by Ken Manktelow. This book was released on 2012-02-13. Thinking and Reasoning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The area of psychological research reviewed in this book is one that is not only increasing in popularity in college curricula, but is also making an ever larger impact on the world outside the classroom. Drawing upon research originally cited in Ken Manktelow’s highly successful publication Reasoning and Thinking, this completely rewritten textbook reflects on the revolutionary changes that have occurred in the field in recent years, stemming from the huge expansion in research output, as well as new methods and explanations, and the appearance of numerous books on the subject aimed at the popular market. The main areas covered are probability judgment, deductive and inductive reasoning, decision making, hypothetical thinking and rationality. In each case, the material is almost entirely new, with topics such as the new paradigm in reasoning research, causal reasoning and counterfactual thinking appearing for the first time. The book also presents an extended treatment of decision making research, and contains a chapter on individual and cultural influences on thinking. Thinking and Reasoning provides a detailed, integrated and approachable treatment of this area of cognitive psychology, and is ideal reading for intermediate and advanced undergraduate students; indeed, for anyone interested in how we draw conclusions and make choices.
Sidetracked
Sidetracked - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sidetracked write by Francesca Gino. This book was released on 2013-02-26. Sidetracked available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A psychologist and business professor takes an in-depth look at decision-making, explaining the pitfalls people can avoid to stay on track with their decisions and reach their goals. 25,000 first printing.
Rational Decision
Rational Decision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rational Decision write by Carl Joachim Friedrich. This book was released on 2007. Rational Decision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To a historian the most interesting thing about decisions is the fact that everyone talks about them. No one interested in social ideas can fail to notice how large a part the word "decision" has come to play in the vocabulary of moral and political discourse. It meets one on every page. Inevitably one asks, "Why?" Why is there so much talk of decisions and of those who are said to make them? Are there any ideological reasons for it? In asking such questions, and in offering "ideology" as an explanation, nothing complex or pejorative is implied by Friedrich. He uses "ideology" to refer to personal responses to what is regarded as a prevalent social situation and to the efforts to critically explain and evaluate that situation, whether the latter be real, imagined, or a bit of both. An investigation of the ideological aspects of political concepts is, clearly, not the only way to explain them, but this and similar genetic explorations can show us how and why large numbers of people come to concentrate on specific issues. If such explorations can tell us little about the validity of political ideas, they can still provide a degree of self-understanding without which political thought is apt to become complacent, irrelevant, and excessively abstract. There is nothing denigrating in recognizing the ideological perimeter within which political ideas move. It will seem so to only those of us who identify the worth and rationality of our thinking with its remoteness from our own experiences, and especially from those that we share with our less reflective neighbors. The topic of rational decision-making presents the student of philosophical politics with the vast and inexhaustible problem of rationality in its relation to decision-making. The present interest in decision-making among social scientists has tended to apply inadequate attention to the application of rationality to the process. Carl J. Friedrich was Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University. During World War II he helped found the School of Overseas Administration at Harvard to train officers for work in military government abroad. He was professor of political science at the University of Heidelberg from 1956 to 1966, where he founded and helped to develop the Institut fr Politische Wissenschaft. He served as president of the American Political Science Association in 1962, the International Political Science Association from 1967-1970, and the Institut international de philosophie politique.
Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Constraints
Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Constraints - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Constraints write by Vladik Kreinovich. This book was released on 2023. Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Constraints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book shows, on numerous examples, how to make decisions in realistic situations when we have both uncertainty and constraints. In most these situations, the book's emphasis is on the why-question, i.e., on a theoretical explanation for empirical formulas and techniques. Such explanations are important: they help understand why these techniques work well in some cases and not so well in others, and thus, help practitioners decide whether a technique is appropriate for a given situation. Example of applications described in the book ranges from science (biosciences, geosciences, and physics) to electrical and civil engineering, education, psychology and decision making, and religionand, of course, include computer science, AI (in particular, eXplainable AI), and machine learning. The book can be recommended to researchers and students in these application areas. Many of the examples use general techniques that can be used in other application areas as well, so it is also useful for practitioners and researchers in other areas who are looking for possible theoretical explanations of empirical formulas and techniques.
