Mind, rationality, and cognition: an interdisciplinary debate

Chater, N. and Felin, T. and Funder, D.C. and Gigerenzer, G. and Koenderink, J.J. and Krueger, J.I. and Noble, D. and Nordli, S.A. and Oaksford, Mike and Schwartz, B. and Stanovich, K.E. and Todd, P.M. (2018) Mind, rationality, and cognition: an interdisciplinary debate. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 25 (2), pp. 793-826. ISSN 1069-9384.

Abstract

This article features an interdisciplinary debate and dialogue about the nature of mind, perception, and rationality. Scholars from a range of disciplines—cognitive science, applied and experimental psychology, behavioral economics, and biology—offer critiques and commentaries of a target article by Felin, Koenderink, and Krueger (2017): “Rationality, Perception, and the All-Seeing Eye,” Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. The commentaries raise a number of criticisms and issues concerning rationality and the all-seeing-eye argument, including the nature of judgment and reasoning, biases versus heuristics, organism–environment relations, perception and situational construal, equilibrium analysis in economics, efficient markets, and the nature of empirical observation and the scientific method. The debated topics have far-reaching consequences for the rationality literature specifically, as well as for the cognitive, psychological, and economic sciences more broadly. The commentaries are followed by a response from the authors of the target article. Their response is organized around three central issues: (1) the problem of cues; (2) what is the question?; and (3) equilibria, $500 bills, and the axioms of rationality.

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