Interpretation, inference, and rationality. Much recent work in the psychology of reasoning has suggested a bleak view of human reasoning abilities. Several philosophers have argued that there are methodological if not philosophical reasons for not underestimating the rationality of human reasoning capacities. I discuss three such arguments : the argument from the evolution by natural selection of human reasoning faculties ; the argument that errors in reasoning ought to be attributed to performance factors, not to inferential competence ; and the argument to the effect that were the human inference system irrational, it could not be ascribed any beliefs at all. I reject the first two arguments and I claim that the third argument has very ...
Inference is elementary and ubiquitous: Cognition always goes beyond the data. Thinking—including pr...
Reasoning researchers within cognitive psychology have spent decades examining the extent to which h...
This dissertation is a study of how methodological issues in psychology can have significant implica...
Interpretation, inference, and rationality. Much recent work in the psychology of reasoning has sug...
Cognitive scientists have revealed systematic errors in human reasoning. There is disagreement about...
Cognitive scientists have revealed systematic errors in human reasoning. There is disagreement about...
This article tests human inference rationality when dealing with default rules. To study human ratio...
This paper explicates an account of argumentative rationality by articulating the common, basic idea...
The outline of the paper is as follows: in Section 1, I first introduce what I hold to be the two ba...
La majorité des recherches en sciences cognitives suppose que la fonction du raisonnement humain est...
This book describes how the concept of rationality has evolved in the last decades. Since the early ...
Mercier and Sperber illuminate many aspects of reasoning and rationality, providing refreshing and t...
According to Aristotle, humans are the rational animal. The borderline between rationality and irrat...
The psychology of reasoning and decision making (RDM) shares the methodology of cognitive psychology...
According to Aristotle, humans are the rational animal. The borderline between rationality and irrat...
Inference is elementary and ubiquitous: Cognition always goes beyond the data. Thinking—including pr...
Reasoning researchers within cognitive psychology have spent decades examining the extent to which h...
This dissertation is a study of how methodological issues in psychology can have significant implica...
Interpretation, inference, and rationality. Much recent work in the psychology of reasoning has sug...
Cognitive scientists have revealed systematic errors in human reasoning. There is disagreement about...
Cognitive scientists have revealed systematic errors in human reasoning. There is disagreement about...
This article tests human inference rationality when dealing with default rules. To study human ratio...
This paper explicates an account of argumentative rationality by articulating the common, basic idea...
The outline of the paper is as follows: in Section 1, I first introduce what I hold to be the two ba...
La majorité des recherches en sciences cognitives suppose que la fonction du raisonnement humain est...
This book describes how the concept of rationality has evolved in the last decades. Since the early ...
Mercier and Sperber illuminate many aspects of reasoning and rationality, providing refreshing and t...
According to Aristotle, humans are the rational animal. The borderline between rationality and irrat...
The psychology of reasoning and decision making (RDM) shares the methodology of cognitive psychology...
According to Aristotle, humans are the rational animal. The borderline between rationality and irrat...
Inference is elementary and ubiquitous: Cognition always goes beyond the data. Thinking—including pr...
Reasoning researchers within cognitive psychology have spent decades examining the extent to which h...
This dissertation is a study of how methodological issues in psychology can have significant implica...