Troubles with Bayesianism: An introduction to the psychological immune system

By Eric Mandelbaum. Mind & Language, 2018

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Correspondence Eric Mandelbaum, Philosophy Program, CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 7113, New York, NY 10016. Email: emandelbaum@gc.cuny.edu A Bayesian mind is, at its core, a rational mind. Bayesianism is thus well-suited to predict and explain mental processes that best exemplify our ability to be rational. However, evidence from belief acquisition and change appears to show that we do not acquire and update information in a Bayesian way. Instead, the principles of belief acquisition and updating seem grounded in maintaining a psychological immune system rather than in approximating a Bayesian processor.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Decision Sciences

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• Resource-rational analysis vs. resource-rational humans (2019, unknown): “More generally: What are the principles that lead to perverse “anti-Bayesian” updating? Perhaps resource rationality wasn’t intended to cover all cases (in which case it is not an “Imperial Bayesian” theory; Mandelbaum 2018).”