Gerasimova, I. A. Decision Making Process: Logic and Psychology

Abstract: The author of the article carries out a comparative analysis of motives and mechanisms of choice in the decision making process. Based on the interdisciplinary analysis of evolutionary, cognitive and historical-philosophical aspects, the author concludes that preconscious and conscious factors influencing our choice are complementary. The author of the article also discusses the problem of the philosophical underpinning of logic and the role of logical means in the decision making process as a part of topical issues of intercultural communication and philosophy of creative process. The author describes evolutionary factors contributing to the certainty and responsibility of choice. Moral and religious ideas in zoroastrianism, art of polemics in ancient studies, activities of sophists, Plato’s and Aristotle’s conceptions and the stoic teaching about sensual objectivity and meaning of logic influenced the process of formation of analytical thinking. The author also discusses whether it is possible to use the object-image and conception thinking in the decision making process. In the decision making process the role of the principle of contradiction is represented in a form of clear distinction of true and false which has a particularly pragmatic value in real-life situations of making a choice. The principles of classical logic have been formed in the course of cognitive evolution.

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