Since the early 1970s, psychologists have devoted a great deal of attention to human
reasoning and decision making, and to the psychological processes that underlie them.
While some of this attention was motivated by the intrinsic interest and importance of these ...

During the last twenty-five years, researchers who studied human reasoning and judgment
in what has become known as the heuristics and biases tradition have produced an
impressive body of experimental work that many have seen as having “bleak implications” ...

Abstract Over the past few decades, reasoning and rationality have been the focus of
enormous interdisciplinary attention, attracting interest from philosophers, psychologists,
economists, statisticians and anthropologists, among others. The widespread interest in ...

Abstract There is a venerable philosophical tradition that views human beings as intrinsically
rational, though even the most ardent defender of this view would admit that under certain
circumstances people's decisions and thought processes can be very irrational indeed. ...

In this paper we propose to argue for two claims. The first is that a sizable group of
epistemological projects-a group which includes much of what has been done in
epistemology in the analytic tradition-would be seriously undermined if one or more of a ...

Abstract: Heal (1996a) maintains that evidence of cognitive penetrability doesn't determine
whether stimulation theory or theory theory wins. Given the wide variety of mechanisms and
processes that get called 'simulation', we argue that it's not useful to ask 'who wins?'. The ...

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Jonathan M. Weinberg, Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich in this paper we propose to argue
for two claims. The first is that a sizeable group of epistemological projects—a group which
includes much of what has been done in epistemology in the analytic tradition—would be ...

One of the most fundamental questions in philosophy concerns the nature of rationality: what
conditions must be met for an inference or a decision to be rational? Disagreements over this
issue have been a perennial theme in philosophy, but they also underlie many of the ...