Bounded Thinking: Intellectual Virtues for Limited Agents

by Adam Morton

Bounded Thinking offers a new account of the virtues of limitation management: intellectual virtues of adapting to the fact that we cannot solve many problems that we can easily describe. Adam Morton argues that we do give one another guidance on managing our limitations, but that this has to be in terms of virtues and not of rules, and in terms of success--knowledge and accomplishment--rather than rationality. He establishes a taxonomy of intellectual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199658536
• ISBN13: 9780199658534
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.8"