Coherence in thought and action

• Preface

• Acknowledgments

• 1
• Coherence in Philosophy and Psychology

• 1
• Coherence in Psychology

• 2
• Coherence in Philosophy

• 3
• Why Philosophy Abandoned Psychology

• 4
• Cognitive Naturalism

• 5
• Summary

• 2
• Coherence as Constraint Satisfaction

• 1
• Constraint Satisfaction

• 2
• Coherence Problems

• 3
• Computing Coherence

• 4
• Measuring Coherence

• 5
• Summary

• 3
• Knowledge

• 1
• Haack's "Foundherentism" and Explanatory Coherence

• 2
• Analogical Coherence

• 3
• Deductive Coherence

• 4
• Perceptual Coherence

• 5
• Conceptual Coherence

• 6
• Unifying Coherence

• 7
• Objections to Coherene Theories

• 8
• Language

• 9
• Summary

• 4
• Reality

• 1
• Truth and the World

• 2
• Correspondence and Approximate Truth

• 3
• Mind and Body

• 4
• Other Minds

• 5
• God

• 6
• Summary

• 7
• Appendix: The Comparative Coherence of Materialism, Dualism, and Theism

• 5
• Ethics and Politics

• 1
• Deliberative Coherence

• 2
• Deductive Coherence

• 3
• Explanatory Coherence

• 4
• Analogical Coherence

• 5
• Making Sense of Ethics

• 6
• Putting It All Together

• 7
• The Coherence of Abortion

• 8
• Normative Issues

• 9
• Politics: Justifying the State

• 10
• What Kind of State?

• 11
• Conclusion

• 12
• Summary

• 6
• Emotion

• 1
• The Importance of Trust

• 2
• Coherence-Based Inference

• 3
• Emotional Coherence: Theory

• 4
• Emotional Coherence: Model

• 5
• Emotional Coherence and Trust

• 6
• Empathy

• 7
• Nationalism

• 8
• Metacoherence

• 9
• Beauty and Symmetry

• 10
• Humor

• 11
• Cognitive Therapy

• 12
• Evidence for Emotional Coherence Theory

• 13
• Normative Considerations

• 14
• Summary

• 7
• Consensus

• 1
• Consensus in Science and Medicine

• 2
• A Model of Consensus

• 3
• Consensus and the Causes of Ulcers

• 4
• Consensus and the Origin of the Moon

• 5
• Benefits of Consensus Conferences

• 6
• Consensus in Value Judgments

• 7
• Summary

• 8
• Probability

• 1
• Two Traditions in Causal Reasoning

• 2
• Probabilistic Networks

• 3
• Translating ECHO into Probabilistic Networks

• 4
• Tracking Probabilistic Problems with ECHO

• 5
• Conclusion

• 6
• Summary

• 9
• The Future of Coherence

• References

• Index