The Bleak Implication and the Selection Argument－Are Humans Irrational?
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國立臺灣大學哲學論評, 41, 1-34
Journal
國立臺灣大學哲學論評
Journal Issue
41
Pages
1-34
Date Issued
2011-03
Date
2011-03
Author(s)
彭孟堯
Abstract
This essay is to reject the so-called “bleak implication”—human beings are irrational in nature, which was said to follow from experiments on human reasoning in the eighties. The rejection is advocated by way of re-constructing for the cognitive scientists their argument for the bleak implication. Meanwhile, Stich constructs what he calls the “Selection argument” for human rationality, and then rejects it. This essay examines his arguments and argues that his objections are defective. This essay then revises the selection argument to show how human rationality is connected to the design and performance of human reasoning mechanism with the hope that we may re-open the possibility of defending human rationality from an evolutionary point of view.
Subjects
蒼涼蘊涵
天擇論證
理性
推想
bleak implication
Selection argument
rationality
human reasoning
Type
journal article
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