Bayesian Rationality: The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning

by Mike Oaksford and Nick Chater

Are people rational? This question was central to Greek thought; and has been at the heart of psychology, philosophy, rational choice in social sciences, and probabilistic approaches to artificial intelligence. This book provides a radical re-appraisal of conventional wisdom in the psychology of reasoning.

For almost two and a half thousand years, the Western conception of what it is to be a human being has been dominated by the idea that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198524498
• ISBN13: 9780198524496
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"