Adapting Human Thinking and Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Society

Hiroshi Yama (Osaka City University, Japan) and Veronique Salvano-Pardieu (University of Tours, France)

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Publication Status: E-Book and Print Version Available for Purchase

ISBN13: 9781799818113

ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799818120

EISBN13: 9781799818137

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1811-3

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Studies on human thinking have focused on how humans solve a problem and have discussed how human thinking can be rational. A juxtaposition between psychology and sociology allows for a unique perspective of the influence on human thought and morality on society.

Adapting Human Thinking and Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Society is an in-depth critical resource that provides comprehensive research on thinking and morality and its influence on societal norms as well as how people adapt themselves to the novel circumstances and phenomena that characterize the contemporary world, including low birthrate, the reduction of violence, and globalization. Furthermore, cultural differences are considered with research targeted towards problems specific to a culture. Featuring a wide range of topics such as logic education, cognition, and knowledge management systems, this book is ideal for academicians, sociologists, researchers, social scientists, psychologists, and students.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Argumentative Theory
Cognition
Contemporary Civilization
Diversity
Evolutionary Psychology
Intellectual Capital
Knowledge Management Systems
Logic Education
Moral Reasoning
Morality
Pathology

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Hiroshi Yama graduated from Kyoto University in 1982. His major is psychology. He got Master Degree in Pedagogy from Kyoto University in 1985, and Ph.D. in Pedagogy from Kyoto University in 1992. After he worked as a JSPS Post Doctorial Fellow from 1988 to 1990, became a lecturer at Osaka Prefectural College of Nursing. He moved to Kobe College in 1993. He was promoted to associate professor in 1995, and became a professor in 2001. He was adopted as a visiting fellow under the terms between JSPS and British Academy in 2002. He was also adopted as a visiting fellow under the terms between JSPS and KOSEF in 2005. He got a sabbatical and stayed at Birkbeck hosted by Mike Oaksford for a year in 2008. His research theme is how human cognition is adaptive in a culture, and currently focuses on the distinction between rule-based inference of Westerners and dialectic inference of Easterners. He moved to Osaka City University and became a professor in psychology at Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences in 2011.

Véronique Salvano-Pardieu is lecturer at the university of Orleans and at the ESPE “training teacher school” of Tours. She is the head of the Master program for specialized teachers. She is a member of the research laboratory in psychology “PAVeA” at the university of Tours. She is working on moral reasoning and moral judgment in a developmental perspective and especially with children and teenagers with special educational needs.

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