In this response, we clarify several misunderstandings of the understanding/acceptance principle and defend our specific operationalization of that principle. We reiterate the …
We propose a critique of normativism, defined as the idea that human thinking reflects a normative system against which it should be measured and judged. We analyze the …
How can anyone be rational in a world where knowledge is limited, time is pressing, and deep thought is often an unattainable luxury? Traditional models of unbounded rationality …
Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …
Conviction Narrative Theory (CNT) is a theory of choice under radical uncertainty–situations where outcomes cannot be enumerated and probabilities cannot be assigned. Whereas …
A Clark, C Thornton - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1997 - cambridge.org
Some regularities enjoy only an attenuated existence in a body of training data. These are regularities whose statistical visibility depends on some systematic recoding of the data. The …
A Clark - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2013 - cambridge.org
Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming …
Studies on human reasoning have long established that intuitions can bias inference and lead to violations of logical norms. Popular dual-process models, which characterize …
BR Newell, DR Shanks - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2014 - cambridge.org
To what extent do we know our own minds when making decisions? Variants of this question have preoccupied researchers in a wide range of domains, from mainstream …