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020 _a9780198524502 (hbk : alk. paper)
040 _aISI Library
082 0 4 _a153.43
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100 1 _aOaksford, Mike,
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aBayesian rationality :
_bthe probabilistic approach to human reasoning /
_cMike Oaksford and Nick Chater.
260 _aOxford ;
_bOxford University Press,
_c2009.
300 _ax, 330 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm.
490 0 _aOxford cognitive science series
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _a1. 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.
520 _aAre 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.
650 0 _aReasoning (Psychology)
650 0 _aPractical reason.
700 1 _aChater, Nick,
_eauthor
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