
By Ernest Sosa (auth.), Kepa Korta, Ernest Sosa, Xabier Arrazola (eds.)
ISBN-10: 9048153212
ISBN-13: 9789048153213
ISBN-10: 9401710708
ISBN-13: 9789401710701
As ordinary, the complaints of the foreign Colloquium on Cognitive technological know-how comprise modern paintings by means of impressive researchers within the box. This quantity includes 3 different types of papers akin to 3 of the most disciplines in cognitive technology: philosophy, psychology, and synthetic intelligence. The identify - Cognition, organisation and Rationality - captures the most concerns addressed by way of the papers. in fact, all are all for cognition, yet a few are specially focused at the very idea of rationality, whereas others specialize in (multiple) enterprise. the variety in their disciplinary origins and standpoints not just displays the most themes and the diversity of alternative positions awarded at ICCS-97, in addition to demonstrating the richness, fruitfulness and variety of study in cognitive technology today.
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1978 presented to a group of facility, staffand fourth-year students and Harvard Medical School. If a test to detect a disease whose prevalence is 111000 has a false positive rate of5%, what is the chance that a person found to have a positive result actually has the disease, assuming that you know nothing about the person's symptoms or signs? __% . Under the most plausible interpretation of the problem, the correct Bayesian answer is 2%. But only eighteen percent of the Harvard audience gave an answer close to 2%.
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And this, it is argued, is evidence for the existence of at least two normatively sophisticated Darwinian modules, one designed to deal with probabilistic reasoning when information is presented in a relative frequency format, the other designed to deal with reasoning about cheating in social exchange settings. 1.
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