Coherence in Thought and Action

Thagard, Paul

doi:10.7551/mitpress/1900.001.0001

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“…Along these lines Thagard (2000Thagard ( , 2006 has developed what he calls a theory of emotional coherence. He promotes a model of ''emotional cognition'' in which all thinking is seen to have an emotional component.…”

Section: Judgment and Emotionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Character and Knowledge: Learning from the Speech of Experts

Tindale

2011

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This paper discusses the ways in which a person's character (ethos) and a hearer's emotional response (pathos) are part of the complex judgments made about experts' claims, along with an actual assessment of those claims (logos). The analysis is rooted in the work of Aristotle, but expands to consider work on emotion and cognition conducted by Thagard and Gigerenzer. It also draws on some conclusions of the general epistemology of testimony (of which expert testimony is a special subset), where it is argued that we learn not just from the transmission of another's beliefs, but from the words they speak. This shifts the onus in testimony away from the intentions of a speaker onto the judgments of an audience, capturing better its social character and reflecting our experience of receiving testimony. I conclude, however, that accepting the arguments of experts involves much more than simply believing what they say.

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Section: Judgment and Emotionmentioning

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Character and Knowledge: Learning from the Speech of Experts

Tindale

2011

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“…In the coin toss example, more content propositions in the first case are pair-wise coherent than those in the second case. I should note that those interested in explanatory coherence often take this pair-wise approach (most notably Thagard, 1992Thagard, , 2000. I once criticized the pairwise approach for the reason that an inconsistent set can be pair-wise coherent and receive a positive degree of coherence in the pair-wise approach (Shogenji, 1999).…”

Section: Coherence and Inconsistencymentioning

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The Role of Coherence of Evidence in the Non-Dynamic Model of Confirmation

Shogenji

2005

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This paper examines the role of coherence of evidence in what I call the non-dynamic model of confirmation. It appears that other things being equal, a higher degree of coherence among pieces of evidence raises to a higher degree the probability of the proposition they support. I argue against this view on the basis of three related observations. First, we should be able to assess the impact of coherence on any hypothesis of interest the evidence supports. Second, the impact of coherence among the pieces of evidence can be different on different hypotheses of interest they support. Third, when we assess the impact of coherence on a hypothesis of interest, other conditions that should be held equal for a fair assessment include the degrees of individual support which the propositions directly supported by the respective pieces of evidence provide for the hypothesis. Once we take these points into consideration, the impression that coherence of evidence plays a positive role in confirmation dissipates. In some cases it can be shown that other things being equal, a higher degree of coherence among the pieces of evidence reduces the degree of confirmation for the hypothesis they support.

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“…It also excels in perceiving fleeting and poorly illuminated stimuli A novel stimulus triggers immediate release of norepinepherine mainly in the right hemisphere (Edelman and Tononi, 2000;Goldberg, 2001;Mesulam, 2000a), and the noradrenergic neurons resist habituation, holding the attentional gates wide open to take in a generous exploratory data base (Tucker and Williamson, 1984). The input is then explored by induction, which utilizes pattern matching (Edelman and Tononi, 2000;Gentner et al, 2001) to define the boundaries (Barlow, 1985) and properties (Gattis, 2001;Hofstadter, 2001;Thagard, 2000) of the newly-discovered phenomena. This pattern matching is a right-hemisphere function (Gregory, 1970;Smith, 1989), as demonstrated by EEG (Molle et al, 2000) and functional MRI (Goebel et al, 1997;Shuren and Grafman, 2002), and verified by lesion studies (Bradshaw and Mattingly, 1995;Walker et al, 2001).…”

Section: The Inability To Assimilate Noveltymentioning

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Broad-Perspective Perceptual Disorder of the Right Hemisphere

Schutz

2005

Neuropsychol Rev

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Traditional accounts of right-posterior brain injury describe a syndrome of low-level perceptual sequelae producing marked acute dependency and transient safety concerns. The syndrome is also held to spare cognition and to carry a generally favorable long-term prognosis. The present paper reviews publications and anecdotal data that challenge this picture. Recent theoretical expositions and empirical studies stipulate three major cognitive functions of the right posterior association cortex: processing novel input, guiding reactions to emergencies, and anticipating consequences. Appearing benign after acute recovery, the impairment of these processes produces vocational, social and marital dysfunctions that increase as a function of chronicity, ultimately becoming more broadly disabling than focal injuries in other cortical loci. The unique symptom picture and serious implications suggest that the long-term syndrome should be labeled (Broad-Perspective Perceptual Disorder) and incorporated in future clinical taxonomies, underscoring the need for extraordinary long-term assistance and specialized therapeutics. Procedures for assessment and differential diagnosis are outlined.

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Coherence in Thought and Action

Cited by 592 publications

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Character and Knowledge: Learning from the Speech of Experts

Character and Knowledge: Learning from the Speech of Experts

The Role of Coherence of Evidence in the Non-Dynamic Model of Confirmation

Broad-Perspective Perceptual Disorder of the Right Hemisphere

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