What is intelligence? Can it be increased by teaching? If so, how, and what difference would an increase make? Before we can answer these questions, we need to clarify them. Jonathan Baron argues that when we do so we find that intelligence has much to do with rational thinking, and that the skills involved in rational thinking are in fact teachable, at least to some extent. Rationality and Intelligence develops and justifies a prescriptive theory of rational thinking in terms of utility theory and the theory of rational ...
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What is intelligence? Can it be increased by teaching? If so, how, and what difference would an increase make? Before we can answer these questions, we need to clarify them. Jonathan Baron argues that when we do so we find that intelligence has much to do with rational thinking, and that the skills involved in rational thinking are in fact teachable, at least to some extent. Rationality and Intelligence develops and justifies a prescriptive theory of rational thinking in terms of utility theory and the theory of rational life plans. The prescriptive theory, buttressed by other assumptions, suggests that people generally think too little and in a way that is insufficiently critical of the initial possibilities that occur to them. However these biases can be - and sometimes are - corrected by education.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. 1985, First Edition. 299 pp. Hardcover. Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket. Clean and unmarked contents. The DJ shows light edgewear. This book was previously owned by the late Allen Newell, and his neat signature appears on the fly leaf. Newell is cited throughout this book, both individually, and with his long time collaborator Herb Simon.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 052126717X. A pristine copy, with a name stamped on the first page and a brief note by the author, but no markings in the text and no signs of prior use. The almost-perfect jacket is protected against future wear by a mylar Brodart cover. Fast shipping by a reliable vendor.; Signed by Author.
