Bounded Thinking : Intellectual Virtues for Limited Agents
ISBN: 9780199658534 | 0199658536
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/6/2013
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Bounded Thinking offers a new account of the virtues of limitation management: intellectual virtues of adapting to the fact that we cannot solve many problems that we can easily describe. Adam Morton argues that we do give one another guidance on managing our limitations, but that this has to be in terms of virtues and not of rules, and in terms of success--knowledge and accomplishment--rather than rationality. He establishes a taxonomy of intellectual virtues, whichincludes 'paradoxical virtues' that sound like vices, such as the virtue of ign... MORE
Adam Morton is the author of six books ranging over all areas in philosophy. He has been Professor of Philosophy at Bristol and Canada Research Chair at Alberta, and now teaches at the University of British Columbia. Morton's work has focused on how we understand one another's behaviour in everyday life, with an emphasis on the role that mutual intelligibility plays in cooperative activity.
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