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Bayesian Rationality: The probabilistic approach to human reasoning Mike Oaksford and Nick ChaterP

Price: £75.00 (Hardback)ISBN-13: 978-0-19-852450-2Publication date: 22 February 2007340 pages, 24 figures, 234x156 mm

Two leading cognitive scientists present a radical re-examination of the psychology of reasoning, arguing against the Western conception of the mind as the 'seat of all reason' Superbly argued, the book is written to appeal to both those within psychology and philosophy 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.