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Rationality and Intelligence

Name: Rationality and Intelligence
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 02017859
Price: 53.89 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Jonathan Baron
ISBN: 9780521017237

Jonathan Baron

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English

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Libristo code: 02017859

Publishers Cambridge University Press, July 2005

What is intelligence? Can it be increased by teaching? If so, how, and what difference would an incr... Full description

Libristo code: 02017859

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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.