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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Cognition & cognitive psychology

• Full title: Bayesian Rationality
• Subtitle: The probabilistic approach to human reasoning
• Author: Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780198524496
• ISBN: 0198524498
• ID: 04527216
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 520 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 156 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. February 2007

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