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: | M Oaksford, Nick Chater |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 330 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Cognitive Science Series |
| Genres: |
Philosophy: logic Philosophy of mind Experimental psychology Cognition and cognitive psychology |
Are people rational? This question was central to Greek thought and has been at the heart of psychology and philosophy for millennia.
Bayesian Rationality features in the following genres: Philosophy: logic, Philosophy of mind, Experimental psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology
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Bayesian Rationality was written by M Oaksford, Nick Chater and published by Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD
Bayesian Rationality has 330 pages
Yes it is part of Oxford Cognitive Science Series series
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