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Bayesian rationality : the probabilistic approach to human reasoning / Mike Oaksford and Nick Chater.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford cognitive science seriesPublication details: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: x, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780198524502 (hbk : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153.43 23 Oa11
Contents:
1. Logic and the western concept of mind -- 2. Rationality and rational analysis -- 3. Reasoning in the real world : how much deduction is there? -- 4. The probabilistic turn -- 5. Does the exception prove the rule? : how people reason with conditionals -- 6. Being economical with the evidence : collecting data and testing hypotheses -- 7. An uncertain quantity : how people reason with syllogisms -- 8. The rational analysis of mind : a dialogue.
Summary: Are people rational? This question was central to Greek thought and has been at the heart of psychology and philosophy for millennia. This book provides a radical and controversial reappraisal of conventional wisdom in the psychology of reasoning, proposing that the Western conception of the mind as a logical system is flawed at the very outset. It argues that cognition should be understood in terms of probability theory, the calculus of uncertain reasoning, ratherthan in terms of logic, the calculus of certain reasoning.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Logic and the western concept of mind --
2. Rationality and rational analysis --
3. Reasoning in the real world : how much deduction is there? --
4. The probabilistic turn --
5. Does the exception prove the rule? : how people reason with conditionals --
6. Being economical with the evidence : collecting data and testing hypotheses --
7. An uncertain quantity : how people reason with syllogisms --
8. The rational analysis of mind : a dialogue.

Are people rational? This question was central to Greek thought and has been at the heart of psychology and philosophy for millennia. This book provides a radical and controversial reappraisal of conventional wisdom in the psychology of reasoning, proposing that the Western conception of the mind as a logical system is flawed at the very outset. It argues that cognition should be understood in terms of probability theory, the calculus of uncertain reasoning, ratherthan in terms of logic, the calculus of certain reasoning.

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