Beyond Rationality

The Search for Wisdom in a Troubled Time
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-531174-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Ken Hammond has spent over a half-century analysing judgment and decision-making. His long-time focus has been on the dichotomy between judgment theories of correspondence (working to achieve empirical accuracy) and coherence (aiming for rationality and consistency) and the political consequences that can come from not understanding which of these theories people are following. In Beyond Rationality Hammond sums up his work and illustrates it with penetrating case studies on topics such as why Kennedy and Khruschev misunderstood each other, Colin Powell's misjudgments, the modes of thought on the Supreme Court, and much, much more. Hammond has changed the way academics think about decision making; with this book, he aims to show a larger audience why mistaken judgments happen, how to make better decisions, and how to understand the thought modes operating in the political process.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hammond, Kenneth R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Experimentelle Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: The New Search for Wisdom

- 1: The Central Role of Human Judgment

- 2: Combating Uncertainty

- Part II: Strategies of Human Judgment

- 3: The Strategy of Seeking Correspondence Competence

- 4: The (Mis)Judgments of Colin Powell

- 5: The Coherence Strategy: Trying to Be Rational

-

- 7: How the Drive for Coherence Brings down Utopias

- Part III: Tactics of Human Judgment

- 8: Continua

- 9: The Cognitive Continuum at the Supreme Court

- 10: Intuition: Seeking Empirical Accuracy the Easy Way

- 11: Analysis: Seeking Empirical Accuracy the Hard Way

- 12: Intuition: Seeking Rationality the Easy Way

- 13: Analysis: Seeking Rationality the Hard Way

- 14: Robert Rubin: Embedded in an Uncertain World

- Part IV: Themes Guiding Research

- 15: Current Themes

- 16: The Author's Theme

- Part V: Looking Backward

- 17: Trying to Learn from History with Bernard Lewis and Jared Diamond

- 18: Toward Better Practices

- 19: Ineptitude and the Tools of War

- 20: The New Search for Wisdom