Rationality In An Uncertain World Essays In The Cognitive Science Of Human Understanding By: Nick Chater Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9781138877160, 1138877166 eText ISBN: 9781135471743, 1135471746 Edition: 1st Pages: 350 Copyright year: 1998 Format: EPUB Available from $ 21.98 USD SKU 9781135471743R90 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 of certain inference. This mismatch means that logic is not the appropriate model for human thought. Oaksford and Chater's argument draws on research in computer Download ebook: https://ouo.io/KuaZm8I
