Hard domains, biased rationalizations, and unanswered empirical questions

Stephen E. Weinberg; Jonathan M. Weinberg

doi:10.1017/S0140525X1900222X

Hard domains, biased rationalizations, and unanswered empirical questions

Stephen E. Weinberg
, Jonathan M. Weinberg

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Cushman raises the intriguing possibility that rationalization accesses/constructs intuitions that are not otherwise cognitively available. However, he substantially over-reaches in arguing that rationalization is mostly right on average, based on claims that the process must have emerged adaptively. The adaptiveness of "bounded rationalization" is domain specific and is unlikely to be adaptive in a large number of important applications.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e54
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1900222X
State	Accepted/In press - 2020

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Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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