The Probabilistic Mind: Prospects for Bayesian Cognitive ScienceNick Chater, Mike Oaksford The rational analysis method, first proposed by John R. Anderson, has been enormously influential in helping us understand high-level cognitive processes. The Probabilistic Mind is a follow-up to the influential and highly cited 'Rational Models of Cognition' (OUP, 1998). It brings together developments in understanding how, and how far, high-level cognitive processes can be understood in rational terms, and particularly using probabilistic Bayesian methods. It synthesizes and evaluates the progress in the past decade, taking into account developments in Bayesian statistics, statistical analysis of the cognitive 'environment' and a variety of theoretical and experimental lines of research. The scope of the book is broad, covering important recent work in reasoning, decision making, categorization, and memory. Including chapters from many of the leading figures in this field, The Probabilistic Mind will be valuable for psychologists and philosophers interested in cognition. |
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... Depends on Me; My future depends on me, and my best friend can depend on me.” Maggie, unmarried at thirty, swears she will never marry before 35 and 40 if she freezes her eggs. Stephanie thinks that may change when maternal cravings ...
... a question of dignity or of any other moral category . It doesn't depend , never did depend on us . Dependence may sometimes make us feel elated , it never cheers us up . [ SIAMO ALLA SOLITUDINE DI GRUPPO ] Siamo alla solitudine 65.
... depend on us are. Apuleius states that: Among the things which depend on us, virtue is the primary good and also praiseworthy, for the one who seeks the good.181 This statement, then, seems to imply that not only virtue depends on us ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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