Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds

By Nora Miller. 2001

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Are Evolutionary Explanations Unfalsifiable? Evolutionary Psychology and the Lakatosian Philosophy of Science (2000, background): “Despite the recent emergence of evolutionary psychology as a promising new perspective in the behavioral sciences (see Barkow, Cosmides, & Tooby, 1992; Buss, 1995, 1999; Pinker, 1997; Simpson & Kenrick, 1997; Wright, 1994), this approach has been subject to frequent criticism (e.g., Berwick, 1998; H”
Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience (2009, background): “There are many cases in which we demonstrably do not (Kahneman, Slovic, & Tversky, 1982; Piattelli-Palmarini, 1994).”
Bounding rationality to the world (2003, methodology): “approach is then to present people with uncommon situations and observe how their decision mechanisms ‘‘break’’ – this is the method usually adopted in the generation and study of cognitive illusions (e.g., Piattelli-Palmarini, 1994 ), and has been proposed by Simon as well.”
Fast and frugal heuristics: Tools of social rationality. (2009, unknown): “…accurate probabilistic beliefs about their world by emphasizing that our limited cognitive machinery is " not built (for whatever reason) to work by the rules of probability " (Gould, 1992, p. 469), and that human beings are a species that is uniformly probability-blind (Piattelli-Palmarini, 1994).”
The illusion of conscious will (2007, background): “Indeed, naïve subjects are quite remarkably poor at distinguishing good sequences of reasoning from bad ones, or at fixing up the latter to make them better (Kahneman et al. 1982; Piattelli-Palmarini 1994).”
Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology (2007, background): “They see human reason as, specifically, an adaptation for social exchange, somehow reflecting the social structure of primitive human social groups, whereas Pinker offers a less specific portrait, derived from Tooby and Irven DeVore (1987). According to Pinker, the “cognitive niche” occupied by huma”
Heuristics and Biases: Individual Differences in Reasoning: Implications for the Rationality Debate? (2002, unknown): “But children do not reason well in the Piaget task by understanding the question actually asked “Are the sticks the same size or is one longer?” as having the meaning “Which answer – that the sticks are the same size or that one is longer – renders the experimenter’s actions (more) relevant to his a”