The Philosophy of Psychology
which our belief-forming processes can be assessed, besides those oftruth andspeed(Stich, 1990). We do not share this view, at l ...
strikingly illustrated by one of the examples ofbase-rate neglect. Casscells et al. (1978) posed staVand students at Harvard Med ...
Figure 5.1 The Wason card-selection task Judging from this version of the selection task it looks as if people are checking on t ...
of the selection task and not so badly at others. We will consider attempts to explain performance on this task in section 4. Bu ...
3.1 The argument from interpretation The most popular of such arguments has been the argument frominter- pretation. This has sev ...
ascription. It is the practices of belief-ascription which need to track the actual content of beliefs. This they do fairly well ...
many false beliefs which other people cannot comprehend. We return to this point in chapter 6, when we discuss arguments for so- ...
has been raised against any form of inferential-role semantics. Fodor has repeatedly objected (1987, 1990; Fodor and Lepore, 199 ...
is preconWgured by an intuitive metaphysics which setsWrm divisions between such categories aspeople,animals,plants, andartefact ...
3.3 The argument from reXective equilibrium If we ask what might be the source of our judgements concerning rational- ity and wh ...
on. So we need to make a distinction between people’sperformanceas moral agents (which will most likely fall short of the ideal ...
may be capable of thinking in this way. But much of the time, when relying upon our native resources, we may well depend upon me ...
4.1 Cheater detection: a module for monitoring social exchange Familiarity of the subject matter may have some eVect on performa ...
individuals need a way of working out and keeping track of the costs and beneWts involved in social exchange. And then that very ...
with indicative versions of the selection task, it would seem that we could explain the diVerence very easily. However, the hypo ...
setting up some sort of associational link. However, a diVerent inter- pretation of why the ‘meaningful’ rule is easier for subj ...
Cognitive principle of relevance: Human cognition tends to be geared towards the maximisation of relevance. Communicative princi ...
To avoid giving the impression that this is an easy,ad hoc, explanation of an already known result, Sperber and his collaborator ...
to most real-life cases. For suppose that the conditional in question is, ‘For all x, if x is a raven, then x is black’. It make ...
success, and the other of which employs whatever standards are derivable from normative systems of logic, probability theory and ...
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