Rationality and the reflective mind [electronic resource] / Keith Stanovich.

By:

Stanovich, Keith E, 1950-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resourceISBN:

9780199894307 (ebook) :

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Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:

153.43 22

LOC classification:

BF442

Online resources:

Oxford scholarship online

Summary: The author attempts to resolve the debate about how much irrationality to ascribe to human cognition. He shows how the insights of dual-process theory and evolutionary psychology can be combined to explain why humans are sometimes irrational even though they possess cognitive machinery of remarkable adaptiveness.

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The author attempts to resolve the debate about how much irrationality to ascribe to human cognition. He shows how the insights of dual-process theory and evolutionary psychology can be combined to explain why humans are sometimes irrational even though they possess cognitive machinery of remarkable adaptiveness.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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