Review
The View from the Low Road
Contemporary psychology, Vol.33(3), pp.225-226
03/01/1988
DOI: 10.1037/025495
Abstract
Reviews the book, Minimal Rationality by Christopher Cherniak (1986). Cherniak's main business is to attack the myth apparently endemic to philosophy that ideally rational agents have no cognitive limitations. His goal is to discover and describe the more realistic capabilities of a minimal agent--someone who, if not like you and me, can at least be said to have a cognitive system of beliefs, desires, and perceptions. But Cherniak is not content with generalizations that apply narrowly to the undergraduate volunteers in psychological experiments, for example, or even to creatures that inhabit the known world. In a chapter on rationality and the structure of human memory, Cherniak criticizes idealized conceptions of memory that assume that anytime a person acquires a new belief or changes an old one, all of his or her memory is updated and checked for consistency. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The View from the Low Road
- Creators
- Lola L Lopes
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- Contemporary psychology, Vol.33(3), pp.225-226
- DOI
- 10.1037/025495
- ISSN
- 0010-7549
- Publisher
- AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
- Number of pages
- 2
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/1988
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship ; Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984963082602771
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