All, Given our recent conversations about Bayes, I thought this might interest somebody.
Does anybody had a sense of where B and B S is headed these days? I got a request for my credentials as a reviewer that was longer than any review I might potentially write. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > [Original Message] > From: Behavioral & Brain Sciences <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 3/21/2008 3:12:17 AM > Subject: Oaksford & Chater/Bayesian Rationality: BBS Call for Commentators > > Dear Dr. Thompson, > > > ================================================================== > BBS MULTIPLE BOOK REVIEW -- CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS > ================================================================== > > Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for > commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new > Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: > > http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Oaksford-031 32008.ACC > > * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to > submit a proposal with expertise information. > > * If you experience technical difficulties, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * Please respond to this Call no later than April 11, 2008 > > NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is an international, interdisciplinary > journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current > research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS > Associates, or suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please > follow the instructions linked below: > > http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html > > > ================================================================== > ** Multiple Book Review Information ** > ================================================================== > > Below is a link to the forthcoming précis of a book accepted for Multiple Book Review > in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS). Please note that it is the *BOOK*, not the > precis, that is to be reviewed. > > BOOK: Bayesian Rationality: The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning > > PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, 2007 > > AUTHORS: Mike Oaksford and Nick Chater > > ABSTRACT: According to Aristotle humans are the rational animal. The borderline between rationality and > irrationality is fundamental to many aspects of human life including the law, mental health, and language > interpretation. But what is it to be rational? One answer, deeply embedded in the Western intellectual > tradition since ancient Greece, is that rationality concerns reasoning according to the rules of logicthe > formal theory that specifies the inferential connections that hold with certainty between propositions. > Piaget viewed logical reasoning as defining the end-point of cognitive development; and contemporary > psychology of reasoning has focussed on comparing human reasoning against logical standards. > > Bayesian Rationality argues that rationality is defined instead by the ability to reason about uncertainty. > While people are typically poor at numerical reasoning about probability, human thought is sensitive to > subtle patterns of qualitative Bayesian, probabilistic reasoning. In Chapter 14 of Bayesian Rationality, > the case is made that cognition in general, and human everyday reasoning in particular, is best viewed as > solving probabilistic, rather than logical, inference problems. In chapters 57 the psychology of > deductive reasoning is tackled head-on: it is argued that purportedly logical reasoning problems, > revealing apparently irrational behaviour, are better understood from a probabilistic point of view. Data > from conditional reasoning, Wasons selection task, and syllogistic inference are captured by recasting > these problems probabilistically. The probabilistic approach makes a variety of novel predictions which > have been experimentally confirmed. The book considers the implications of this work, and the wider > probabilistic turn in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, for understanding human rationality. > > Keywords: Reasoning, rationality, logic, probability, Bayes theorem, rational analysis, selection task, > syllogisms, conditional inference, non-monotonic reasoning > > PRECIS: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Oaksford-03132008/Referees/ > > > > ================================================================== > BBS MULTIPLE BOOK REVIEW -- CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS > ================================================================== > > Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for > commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new > Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: > > http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Oaksford-031 32008.ACC > > * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to > submit a proposal with expertise information. > > * If you experience technical difficulties, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * Please respond to this Call no later than April 11, 2008 > > NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is an international, interdisciplinary > journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current > research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS > Associates, or suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please > follow the instructions linked below: > > http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html > > ================================================================== > ================================================================== > > > Barbara Finlay - Editor > Paul Bloom - Editor > > Behavioral and Brain Sciences > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.bbsonline.org > -------------------------------------------------------------------
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