To Be or Not To Be (Rational)!? – SciPhi

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The Rationality Thesis

We take a look at the rationality thesis and delve into the rationality debate asking; are humans rational creatures that make performance errors or irrational creatures that sometimes demonstrate rationality?

Dave talks about slides in this stream which you can find here:

To Be or Not Be Rational – The Video

This Podcast was from our Live Video Stream. If you prefer to watch than listen, check out the below:

• 00:00 – Intro
• 06:05 – Start of slides
• 08:11 – What is the Rationality Debate?
• 11:59 – What is the Rationality Thesis?
• 12:54 – Experiments in rationality
• 14:09 – The Standard Picture
• 16:17 – The Linda Experiment
• 22:15 – The Wason Selection Test
• 25:29 – Rationality experiment results
• 29:52 – Man is irrational
• 32:49 – Man is rational
• 36:36 – Pessimist and Optimist Commitments
• 38:05 – Irrational or Arational?
• 49:27 – Competency and Performance Errors
• 56:17 – Mistakes or ability?
• 1:02:58 – Modus Ponens Principle
• 1:05:53 – The Conjuction Principle
• 1:07:14 – Thinkin about the brain thinking
• 1:07:58 – Cognitive Heuristics
• 1:11:21 – Cognitive Modules
• 1:13:55 – Cognitive Kludges
• 1:15:28 – Cognitive biases
• 1:18:50 – Empirical, or conceptual?
• 1:24:46 – Sosa and Galloway
• 1:33:23 – Chater and Oaksford’s Everyday Rationality
• 1:37:19 – Chater and Oaksford’s Formal Rationality
• 1:39:39 – David Papineau’s Wide Rationality
• 1:46:30 – David Paineau’s Epistemic Rationality
• 1:52:13 – A little bit of discussion

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