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Author Viale, Riccardo

Title Methodological cognitivism. Volume 1, Mind, rationality, and society / Riccardo Viale
Published Berlin ; London : Springer, 2012

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Contents Part 1. COGNITIVE RATIONALITY AND SOCIETY -- Psychologism and Antipsychologism -- The Mind-Society Problem -- Cognition and Rationality of Beliefs in the Social Sciences -- Brain, Mind and Social Action -- Introduction -- Part 2. COGNITIVE ECONOMICS -- Developing Simon's Bounded Rationality -- Feasibility and Realism in Cognitive Economics -- Economic and Cognitive Rationality in Political Behaviour -- Which Mind for Cognitive Economics? -- Epistemological Pluralism and Economics -- Neurocognition and Financial Behaviour -- Part 3. MIND, CULTURE AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL UNIVERSALS -- Subjective Rationality and Cultural Diversity -- Biology and Culture of Human Inference -- Cognitive Diversity in Western and Eastern Thinking -- Adaptive Theory Change as Epistemological Universal
Summary This book deals with the cognitive foundation of the theory of social action. The social sciences are still guided by models of social action, far from the empirical reality of the psychology of action. While economics seems to have made greater progress in accepting the changes to the theory of action derived from cognitive science (see, for example, the 2002 Nobel prize for economics awarded to Daniel Kahneman), sociology is still oriented on the dualism of hermeneutics vs. structuralism, which leaves very little room for a cognitive theory of social action. The unique features of the book are its combination of epistemology, philosophy of mind and cognitive science in order to renew and overcome the limits of the current methodologies of social science and in particular methodological individualism. Methodological cognitivism is proposed as an alternative to the holistic character of structuralism, to the intentionalist and rationalist features of methodological individualism, and to the relativistic character of hermeneutics and ethnomethodology
Analysis sociale wetenschappen
social sciences
filosofie
philosophy
economie
economics
Social Sciences (General)
Sociale wetenschappen (algemeen)
Notes Print version record
Subject Cognition.
Social action -- Psychological aspects
cognition.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Cognition
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783642247439
3642247431