1st Edition
Rationality In An Uncertain World Essays In The Cognitive Science Of Human Understanding
348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book brings together an influential sequence of papers that argue for a radical re-conceptualisation of the psychology of inference, and of cognitive science more generally. The papers demonstrate that the thesis that logic provides the basis of human inference is central to much cognitive science, although the commitment to this view is often implicit. They then note that almost all human... Read more
Part I: problems with logicism; autonomy, implementation and cognitive architecture - a reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn; connectionism, classical cognitive science, and experimental psychology; against logicist cognitive science I - the core argument; against logicist cognitive science II - objections and replies; reasoning theories and bounded rationality; bounded rationlity in taking risks and drawing inferences; logicism and everyday reasoning - mental methods and mental logic; the falsity of folk theories - implications for psychology and philosophy. Part II: the probablistic approach; a rational analysis of the selection task I - optimal data selection; a rational analysis of the selection task II - abstract materials; a rational analysis of the selection task III - thematic materials; a rational analysis of the selection task IV - implications; rational explanation of the selection task; information gain explains relevance, which explains the selection; current developments and future directions.
Biography
Nick Chater, Mike Oaksford
'The authors compile their case, sometimes wittily, and invariably with scholarship.' - D.W. Green, University College, London in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psycholog, 2000
