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Irrationality an essay on akrasia, self-deception, and self-control / by Mele, Alfred R., 1951-

Subjects: “…Irrationalism (Philosophy)…”
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The irrational atheist dissecting the unholy trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens / by Day, Vox

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Irrational and overrated : is our unrealistic self- perception connected to educational achievements? / by Piehlmaier, Dominik

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Weakness of will and practical irrationality

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Weakness of will and practical irrationality

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Beyond rationality contemporary issues /

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Framing decisions decision making that accounts for irrationality, people, and constraints / by Frame, J. Davidson

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Common Sense as a Paradigm of Thought : An Analysis of Social Interaction / by Delaney, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Wright Mills, Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motives and Common Sense -- Symbolic Interactionism, Social Action and Common Sense -- William James, Pragmatism, Habits, and Consciousness -- Charles Horton Cooley, Symbols, Language, and Social Interaction -- George Herbert Mead, Pragmatism, the Social Act, Gestures, and Language -- Herbert Blumer, Meanings, Language, Gestures, and Social Action -- Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self and Common Sense -- Phenomenology and Common Sense -- Edmund Husserl, The Rudiments of Common Sense -- Alfred Schutz, The Life-World, Stocks of Knowledge and Common Sense -- Peter Berger, The Social Construction of Reality and Common Sense -- Ethnomethodology and the Commonsense World -- Harold Garfinkel, Taken-for-Granted World, Accounts and the Commonsense World -- Popular Culture Box 3: "The Heresy of Heresies was Common Sense"George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Explaining Common Sense: From the Early Twentieth Century to the Postmodern Era -- Introduction -- Contemporary Scholarship in the Study of Common Sense -- Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Common Sense -- Martin Heidegger -- Hans-Georg Gadamer -- Paul Ricoeur -- Cornelius Castoriadis -- Antonio Gramsci and Common Sense -- Jurgen Habermas and Common Sense -- Immanuel Wallerstein and Common Sense -- Anthony Giddens, Structuration Theory and Common Sense -- Randall Collins, Interaction Ritual Chains and Common Sense -- McDonnell, Bail and Tavory, Resonance Theory and Common Sense -- Feminism and Post-feminism and Common Sense -- Postmodernism and Common Sense -- Posthumanism and Transhumanism -- Postcolonialism -- Popular Culture Box 4: Posthumanism and the Rise of Machines -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Learning About and Adhering to Common Sense -- Introductory Story -- Common Sense Is Learned Behavior -- The Socialization Process: A Critical Aspect of Learning About Common Sense -- Primary Groups -- Agents of Socialization -- Cyber Socialization and Social Media -- Observation and Personal Experience -- The Development of Enlightened Rational Thought and Reason -- Social Theoretical Explanations on How We Learn and Common Sense -- Social Learning Theory -- Symbolic Interactionism -- Subcultural Theory -- Anomie/Strain Theory -- Differential Association Theory -- Labeling Theory -- Control/Social Bond Theory -- Adhering to Common Sense -- Common Sense -- Common, Common Sense -- Popular Culture Box 5: "Robots Lack Common Sense, But They Will Shape Future Employment" -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Violating Common Sense: Uncommon Sense -- Introductory Story -- Impediments to Common Sense: -- Failure to Learn -- The Lack of a Formal Higher Education -- Overly Emotional and Irrational Fear -- Believing in Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstitions and Other Oddities -- Ignorance and Stupidity -- People Doing Dumb and Stupid Things: The Award Goes To -- Darwin Awards -- Stella Awards -- Dumb Criminals -- Not Adhering to Common Sense -- Uncommon Sense: It's Bad for Our Health -- Common, Uncommon Sense -- Popular Culture Box 6: "If Seemingly Every Decision You Make in Life Turns Out to Be a Matter of Uncommon Sense, Do the Opposite!" …”
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The paradoxical rationality of Søren Kierkegaard by McCombs, Richard Phillip

Table of Contents: “…A pretense of irrationalism -- Paradoxical rationality -- Reverse theology -- The subtle power of simplicity -- A critique of indirect communication -- The figure of Socrates and the climacean capacity of paradoxical reason -- The figure of Socrates and the downfall of paradoxical reason -- The proof of paradoxical reason.…”
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What intelligence tests miss the psychology of rational thought / by Stanovich, Keith E., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- A different pitfall of the cognitive miser : thinking a lot, but losing -- Mindware gaps -- Contaminated mindware -- How many ways can thinking go wrong? A taxonomy of irrational thinking tendencies and their relation to intelligence -- The social benefits of increasing human rationality, and meliorating irrationality.…”
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Common minds themes from the philosophy of Philip Pettit /

Table of Contents: “…Beyond program explanation -- Mental causation on the program model -- Can hunter-gatherers hear color? -- Structural irrationality -- Freedom, coercion, and discursive control -- Conversability and deliberation -- Petit's molecule -- Contestatory citizenship : deliberative denizenship -- Crime, responsibility, and institutional design -- Disenfranchised silence -- Joining the dots.…”
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The problem of love in the Middle Ages a historical contribution / by Rousselot, Pierre, 1878-1915

Table of Contents: “…Thomist solution to the problem of love -- Remarks on the elements of the Thomist solution in Greek and medieval thought -- Two medieval sketches of the physical theory -- First characteristic : duality of the lover and the beloved -- Second characteristic : the violence of love -- Third characteristic : irrational love -- Fourth characteristic : love as the final end.…”
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Confronting Aristotle's Ethics ancient and modern morality / by Garver, Eugene

Table of Contents: “…What Aristotle's Rhetoric can tell us about the rationality of virtue -- Decision, rational powers, and irrational powers -- The varieties of moral failure -- Passion and the two sides of virtue -- Aristotle's ethical virtues are political virtues -- The ethical dimensions of Aristotle's Metaphysics -- Living politically and living rationally : choosing ends and choosing lives.…”
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The essential Davidson by Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003

Table of Contents: “…(1969) -- Individuation of events (1969) -- Mental events (1970) ; Appendix : Emeroses by other names (1966) -- Intending (1978) -- Paradoxes of irrationality (1982) -- Truth and meaning (1967) -- On saying that (1968) -- Radical interpretation (1973) -- On the very idea of a conceptual scheme (1974) -- What metaphors mean (1978) -- A coherence theory of truth and knowledge (1983) ; Appendix : Afterthoughts (1987) -- First person authority (1984) -- A nice derangement of epitaphs (1986).…”
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German philosophy in the twentieth century : Weber to Heidegger / by Young, Julian

Table of Contents: “…chapter Introduction -- part PART I: Frankfurt -- chapter 1 Weber: Rationalization, disenchantment and charisma -- chapter 2 Horkheimer and Adorno: The irrationality of reason -- chapter 3 Habermas: In defence of enlightenment -- chapter 4 Marcuse: Eros and utopia -- part PART II: Freiburg -- chapter 5 Husserl: Phenomenology and the crisis of humanity -- chapter 6 Early Heidegger: Existential phenomenology -- chapter 7 Gadamer: Truth versus method -- chapter 8 Arendt: The human condition -- chapter 9 Later Heidegger: Re-enchantment.…”
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Diotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing / by Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- Theory of aesthetic judgment -- The rationalist aesthetic -- The meaning of rules -- Kant's paltry polemic -- Diotima versus Dionysus -- The challenge of irrationalism -- Gadamer and the rationalist tradition -- Leibniz and the roots of aesthetic rationalism -- The grandfather's strange case -- Theory of beauty -- Analysis of sense -- The classical Trinity -- Wolff and the birth of aesthetic rationalism -- Wolff and the aesthetic tradition -- Theory of the arts -- Psychology -- Theory of beauty -- Foundations of neo-classicism -- Gottsched and the high noon of rationalism -- Herr Professor Gottsched's Peruke -- The importance of taste -- Defense of tragedy -- Theory of taste -- Poetics -- The rules -- Dr. …”
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Realizing the Witch Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible / by Baxstrom, Richard

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