As If - Idealization and Ideals Appiah Kwame AnthonyPaperback softback
As If - Idealization and Ideals Appiah Kwame AnthonyPaperback softback "Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable range... A rich and illuminating book." --Thomas Nagel, New York Review of…
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As If - Idealization and Ideals Appiah Kwame AnthonyPaperback softback
"Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable range... A rich and illuminating book." --Thomas Nagel, New York Review of BooksIdealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. He] has packed into this short book an impressive amount of original reflection...
Our beliefs, desires, and sense of justice are bound up with these ideals, and we proceed "as if" our representations were true, while knowing they are not. We build simplified models to make sense of the world, and life is a constant adjustment between the models we make and the realities we encounter. In this elegant and original meditation, Kwame Anthony Appiah suggests that this instinct to idealize is not dangerous or distracting so much as it is necessary.
As If explores how strategic untruth plays a critical role in far-flung areas of inquiry: decision theory, psychology, natural science, and
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