Axiomatic rationality and ecological rationality
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-019-02296-5
Abstract: Axiomatic rationality is defined in terms of conformity to abstract axioms. Savage (The foundations of statistics, Wiley, New York, 1954) limited axiomatic rationality to small worlds (S, C), that is, situations in which the exhaustive… read more here.
Keywords: rationality ecological; ecological rationality; epistemology; rationality ... See more keywords
A Generative View of Rationality and Growing Awareness†
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.807261
Abstract: In this paper we contrast bounded and ecological rationality with a proposed alternative, generative rationality. Ecological approaches to rationality build on the idea of humans as “intuitive statisticians” while we argue for a more generative… read more here.
Keywords: organism; cue; rationality; psychophysics ... See more keywords
Embodied and embedded ecological rationality: A common vertebrate mechanism for action selection underlies cognition and heuristic decision-making in humans
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.841972
Abstract: The last common ancestor shared by humans and other vertebrates lived over half a billion years ago. In the time since that ancestral line diverged, evolution by natural selection has produced an impressive diversity—from fish… read more here.
Keywords: heuristic decision; motor; decision making; circuitry ... See more keywords
Statistical foundations of ecological rationality
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DOI: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2020-2
Abstract: Abstract If we reassess the rationality question under the assumption that the uncertainty of the natural world is largely unquantifiable, where do we end up? In this article the author argues that we arrive at… read more here.
Keywords: ecological rationality; rationality; foundations ecological; statistical foundations ... See more keywords