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Are we mostly rational or mostly irrational?

Western #scholarship conceived of #human #psychology as peak #rationality until 20th century #cognitivePsychology challenged this optimism.

Now David Thorstad provides 3 arguments for a middle way — the “reason-responsive consequentialist view of rational inquiry” — in his #openAccess book, Inquiry under bounds (#OxfordUniversityPress 2024).

philosophyofbrains.com/2024/07

The Brains Blog · Justifying the accountThis post gives three arguments for the reason-responsive consequentialist view of rational inquiry.

This morning, I received an email from #OxfordUniversityPress with an invitation to a virtual round table to learn how this publisher can contribute to an #AI-enabled future.

My reading of the event is different: Oxford University Press would like to know how to profit from AI, probably by data mining anything that you publish with them.

I just added Oxford University Press to my list of spammers.

"'A Suspicious Science' [#OxfordUniversityPress] is divided into two parts. The first part describes the history and contemporary practices of empirical #psychology [and in] the second part of the book, I explore popular forms of #psychology such as #selfHelp literature and its reliance on magical thinking."

Find out more about Amazon's "#1 New Release in #CognitivePsychology" in this week's series about it on the #BrainsBlogphilosophyofbrains.com/2023/03

#PhilSci #CogSci #MetaScience @PhilOfBrains