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.
- ISBN10 0198524501
- ISBN13 9780198524502
- Publish Date 22 February 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 22 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English