Explanatory Status and Theoretical Contributions of Bayesian Models of Cognition")

In advocating Bayesian Enlightenment as a solution to Bayesian Fundamentalism, Jones and Love rule out a broader critique of rationalist approaches to cognition. However, Bayesian Fundamentalism is merely one example of the more general phenomenon of Rationalist Fundamentalism: the tendency to characterize human judgments as rational and optimal in a post hoc manner, after the empirical data are already known