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A study of how reason can be influenced by wishful thinking and how it shapes a person's outlook on life as well as their behaviour.

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"It is invevitable that a book of this scope and ambition will be controversial...What ought not to be controversial, however, is that David Pears has given us an outstandingly lucid and intelligent account of mtters of the highest importance. It is the first comprehensive and unified treatment of the paradoxes of irrational thought and irrational action." - Jon Elster, 'Times Literary Supplement'

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preface, footnotes, index

Motivated Irrationality

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      Publisher St Augustine's Press
      Published 30 January 1999
      ISBN-13 9781890318413
      978-1890318413
      ISBN-10 1890318418
      Also in:
      Philosophy of mind Psychology Topics in philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of how reason can be influenced by wishful thinking and how it shapes a person's outlook on life as well as their behaviour.

      Trade Review
      "It is invevitable that a book of this scope and ambition will be controversial...What ought not to be controversial, however, is that David Pears has given us an outstandingly lucid and intelligent account of mtters of the highest importance. It is the first comprehensive and unified treatment of the paradoxes of irrational thought and irrational action." - Jon Elster, 'Times Literary Supplement'

      Table of Contents
      preface, footnotes, index

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