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, rather than in terms of logic, the calculus of certain reasoning.
| ISBN: | 9780198524496 |
| Publication date: | 22nd February 2007 |
| Author: | Mike (Professor of Psychology and Head of School, Birkbeck College London, UK) Oaksford, Nick (Professor of Cognitive a Chater |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Cognitive Science Series |
| Genres: |
Cognition and cognitive psychology Experimental psychology Philosophy: logic Philosophy of mind |