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Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition A Theory of Judgment

Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition A Theory of Judgment
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  • ISBN-13: 9780226505282
  • ISBN: 0226505286
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press

AUTHOR

Margolis, Howard

SUMMARY

What happens when we think? How do people make judgments? While different theories aboundand are heatedly debatedmost are based on an algorithmic model of how the brain works. Howard Margolis builds a fascinating case for a theory that thinking is based on recognizing patterns and that this process is intrinsically a-logical. Margolis gives a Darwinian account of how pattern recognition evolved to reach human cognitive abilities. Illusions of judgmentstandard anomalies where people consistently misjudge or misperceive what is logically implied or really presentare often used in cognitive science to explore the workings of the cognitive process. The explanations given for these anomalous results have generally explained only the anomaly under study and nothing more. Margolis provides a provocative and systematic analysis of these illusions, which explains why such anomalies exist and recur. Offering empirical applications of his theory, Margolis turns to historical cases to show how an individual's cognitive repertoirethe available cognitive patterns and their relation to cueschanges or resists changes over time. Here he focuses on the change in worldview occasioned by the Copernican discovery: not only how an individual might come to see things in a radically new way, but how it is possible for that new view to spread and become the dominant one. A reanalysis of the trial of Galileo focuses on social cognition and its interactions with politics. In challenging the prevailing paradigm for understanding how the human mind works,Patterns, Thinking, and Cognitionis certain to stimulate fruitful debate.Margolis, Howard is the author of 'Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition A Theory of Judgment' with ISBN 9780226505282 and ISBN 0226505286.

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