TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oaksford,Mike
AU  - Chater,Nick
TI  - Bayesian rationality: the probabilistic approach to human reasoning 
T2  - Oxford cognitive science series
SN  - 9780198524502 (hbk : alk. paper)
U1  - 153.43 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Reasoning (Psychology)
KW  - Practical reason
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Logic and the western concept of mind --
 2. Rationality and rational analysis --
 3. Reasoning in the real world : how much deduction is there? --
 4. The probabilistic turn --
 5. Does the exception prove the rule? : how people reason with conditionals --
 6. Being economical with the evidence : collecting data and testing hypotheses --
 7. An uncertain quantity : how people reason with syllogisms --
 8. The rational analysis of mind : a dialogue
N2  - 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, ratherthan in terms of logic, the calculus of certain reasoning
ER  -