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Mar 04 2009

Incommensurability, explanation, world views

Published in world viewpolicymethodological individualisminstitutionsgovernanceexplanationdecision-makingcausality by Tuomas Kuronen | Comment (0)

Consider LSE's slogan: rerum cognoscere causas ("to know the causes of things", ripped from Virgil, I suppose). It makes a direct claim favouring causal explanation. Another matter, however, more rooted in the Anglo-American tradition is the tendency to embrace methodological individualism (individuals matter).

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Oct 22 2008

Gigerenzer on heuristics

Published in heuristicepistemologydecision-makingbounded rationality by Tuomas Kuronen | Comment (2)

The public lecture super-week at LSE was launched by Gerd Gigerenzer, a German psychologist whose main work concentrates on bounded rationality and heuristic decision-making. His main thesis was the re-evaluation of the unconscious processes taking place in human heads that are commonly seen as, at best, obscuring so called rational ones. The people that think so, let us call them ‘limitationists’, seem to be mainly the same individuals that received the bulk of criticism during the lecture held last Monday. The bottom line is that there can be something happening beyond the realms of language.

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