Rationality In An Uncertain World: Essays In The Cognitive Science Of Human Understanding

by Mike Oaksford and Nick Chater

This book brings together an influential sequence of papers that argue for a radical re-conceptualisation of the psychology of inference, and of cognitive science more generally. The papers demonstrate that the thesis that logic provides the basis of human inference is central to much cognitive science, although the commitment to this view is often implicit. They then note that almost all human inference is uncertain, whereas logic is the calculus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0863775349
• ISBN13: 9780863775345
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"