Homo Prospectus.
Seligman, Martin E. P.
Homo Prospectus. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (401 pages)
Cover -- Homo Prospectus -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 Homo Prospectus -- ONE Introduction -- TWO Intuitive Guidance: Emotion, Information, and Experience -- THREE Deliberative Guidance: Intuitive Guidance in the Counterfactual Mode -- FOUR Imaginative Guidance: A Mind Forever Wandering -- FIVE Collective Prospection: The Social Construction of the Future -- Part 2 Prospection and Life's Enduring Questions -- SIX Pragmatic Prospection -- SEVEN Free Will and the Construction of Options -- EIGHT Emotions: How the Future Feels (and Could Feel) -- NINE Morality and Prospection -- TEN Prospection Gone Awry: Depression -- ELEVEN Creativity and Aging: What We Can Make With What We Have Left -- Afterword -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
In this remarkable convergence of research in philosophy, statistics, decision theory, psychology, and neuroscience, Homo Prospectus shows how human prospection fundamentally reshapes our understanding of key cognitive processes, thereby improving individual and social functioning. It aims to galvanize interest in this new science from scholars in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, as well as an educated public curious about what makes humanity what it is.
9780199374489
Prospective memory.
Electronic books.
BF378.P76 -- .H666 2016eb
153
Homo Prospectus. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (401 pages)
Cover -- Homo Prospectus -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 Homo Prospectus -- ONE Introduction -- TWO Intuitive Guidance: Emotion, Information, and Experience -- THREE Deliberative Guidance: Intuitive Guidance in the Counterfactual Mode -- FOUR Imaginative Guidance: A Mind Forever Wandering -- FIVE Collective Prospection: The Social Construction of the Future -- Part 2 Prospection and Life's Enduring Questions -- SIX Pragmatic Prospection -- SEVEN Free Will and the Construction of Options -- EIGHT Emotions: How the Future Feels (and Could Feel) -- NINE Morality and Prospection -- TEN Prospection Gone Awry: Depression -- ELEVEN Creativity and Aging: What We Can Make With What We Have Left -- Afterword -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
In this remarkable convergence of research in philosophy, statistics, decision theory, psychology, and neuroscience, Homo Prospectus shows how human prospection fundamentally reshapes our understanding of key cognitive processes, thereby improving individual and social functioning. It aims to galvanize interest in this new science from scholars in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, as well as an educated public curious about what makes humanity what it is.
9780199374489
Prospective memory.
Electronic books.
BF378.P76 -- .H666 2016eb
153