Bayesian Rationality : The probabilistic approach to human reasoning Paperback / softback
by Mike (Professor of Psychology and Head of School, Birkbeck College London, UK) Oaksford, Nick (Professor of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, Department of Psychology, University Col Chater
Part of the Oxford Cognitive Science Series series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages, 24 figures
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:22/02/2007
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- ISBN:9780198524496
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages, 24 figures
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:22/02/2007
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- ISBN:9780198524496