Rationality And The Reflective Mind
by Keith E. Stanovich · first published 2010
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"In this book, Keith Stanovich attempts to resolve the Great Rationality Debate in cognitive science-the debate about how much irrationality to ascribe to human cognition. Stanovich 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. Using a unique individual differences approach, Stanovich shows that to fully characterize differences in rational thinking, the traditional System 2 of dual-process theory must be partitioned into the reflec
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Perhaps Rationality and the Reflective Mind by Keith Stanovich (OUP, 2010). https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195341140.001.0001 There are some other interesting references in this blog post: https://culturecog.blog/2021/06/15/a-sociology-of-thinking-d...
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