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3 Jan 2012

Psychology Dissertation | Human Reasoning Rationality

"In this chapter, I begin by providing an overview of both theoretical issues and empirical findings with regard to human reasoning and rationality. I explore first some controversial issues regarding the debate on the role and status of normative assumptions about rationality in philosophical theorizing and then the implications that a set of well-known experimental results on human reasoning had and continues to have today on this debate. These experimental results have produced evidence that experimental subjects do not usually reason in accordance with the classical normative principles of rationality, failing at most elementary reasoning tasks."

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