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Against an uncritical sense of adaptiveness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2001

Steve Fuller
Steve Fuller
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United [email protected]
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Abstract

The “adaptive toolbox” model of the mind is much too uncritical, even as a model of bounded rationality. There is no place for a “meta-rationality” that questions the shape of the decision-making environments themselves. Thus, using the ABC Group's “fast and frugal heuristics,” one could justify all sorts of conformist behavior as rational. Telling in this regard is their appeal to the philosophical distinction between coherence and correspondence theories of truth.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , October 2000 , pp. 750 - 751
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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