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Normativity, interpretation, and Bayesian models
It has been suggested that evaluative normativity should be expunged from the psychology of reasoning. A broadly Davidsonian response to these arguments is presented. It is suggested that two distinctions, between different types of rationality, are more permeable than this argument requires and tha...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4030184/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24860519 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00332 |
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description | It has been suggested that evaluative normativity should be expunged from the psychology of reasoning. A broadly Davidsonian response to these arguments is presented. It is suggested that two distinctions, between different types of rationality, are more permeable than this argument requires and that the fundamental objection is to selecting theories that make the most rational sense of the data. It is argued that this is inevitable consequence of radical interpretation where understanding others requires assuming they share our own norms of reasoning. This requires evaluative normativity and it is shown that when asked to evaluate others’ arguments participants conform to rational Bayesian norms. It is suggested that logic and probability are not in competition and that the variety of norms is more limited than the arguments against evaluative normativity suppose. Moreover, the universality of belief ascription suggests that many of our norms are universal and hence evaluative. It is concluded that the union of evaluative normativity and descriptive psychology implicit in Davidson and apparent in the psychology of reasoning is a good thing. |
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spelling | pubmed-40301842014-05-23 Normativity, interpretation, and Bayesian models Oaksford, Mike Front Psychol Psychology It has been suggested that evaluative normativity should be expunged from the psychology of reasoning. A broadly Davidsonian response to these arguments is presented. It is suggested that two distinctions, between different types of rationality, are more permeable than this argument requires and that the fundamental objection is to selecting theories that make the most rational sense of the data. It is argued that this is inevitable consequence of radical interpretation where understanding others requires assuming they share our own norms of reasoning. This requires evaluative normativity and it is shown that when asked to evaluate others’ arguments participants conform to rational Bayesian norms. It is suggested that logic and probability are not in competition and that the variety of norms is more limited than the arguments against evaluative normativity suppose. Moreover, the universality of belief ascription suggests that many of our norms are universal and hence evaluative. It is concluded that the union of evaluative normativity and descriptive psychology implicit in Davidson and apparent in the psychology of reasoning is a good thing. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4030184/ /pubmed/24860519 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00332 Text en Copyright © 2014 Oaksford. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Oaksford, Mike Normativity, interpretation, and Bayesian models |
title | Normativity, interpretation, and Bayesian models |
title_full | Normativity, interpretation, and Bayesian models |
title_fullStr | Normativity, interpretation, and Bayesian models |
title_full_unstemmed | Normativity, interpretation, and Bayesian models |
title_short | Normativity, interpretation, and Bayesian models |
title_sort | normativity, interpretation, and bayesian models |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4030184/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24860519 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00332 |
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