TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bertolotti,Tommaso
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Patterns of Rationality: Recurring Inferences in Science, Social Cognition and Religious Thinking 
T2  - Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics,
SN  - 9783319177861
AV  - BD143-237 
U1  - 120 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Religion
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - Philosophy and science
KW  - Evolutionary Biology
KW  - Computational Intelligence
KW  - Cognitive psychology
KW  - Cognitive Psychology
KW  - Philosophy of Science
KW  - Religious Studies, general
N1  - Introduction -- Part I Science and Strategic Cognition -- Part II Cognitive Niches and Social Cognition: Using Knowledge as a Tool -- Part III The Eco-Cognitive Epistemology of Counterfactual Beliefs
N2  - The book is an epistemological monograph written from a multidisciplinary perspective. It provides a complex and realistic picture of cognition and rationality, as endowments aimed at making sense and reacting smartly to one’s environment, be it epistemic, social or simply ecological. The first part of the book analyzes scientific modeling as products of the biological necessity to cope with the environment and be able to draw as many inferences as possible about it. Moreover, it develops an epistemological framework which will be exploited in both the second part of the book, focusing on social cognition and cognitive niche construction, and the third part, dealing with the apparent irrationality of magical and religious belief. The book also discusses how both social networking and online religion influence cognition, rationality and irrational belief
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17786-1
ER  -