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Heuristics refound

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2001

William C. Wimsatt
William C. Wimsatt
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy and Committee on Evolutionary Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 [email protected]
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Abstract

Gigerenzer et al.'s is an extremely important book. The ecological validity of the key heuristics is strengthened by their relation to ubiquitous Poisson processes. The recognition heuristic is also used in conspecific cueing processes in ecology. Three additional classes of problem-solving heuristics are proposed for further study: families based on near-decomposability analysis, exaptive construction of functional structures, and robustness.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , October 2000 , pp. 766 - 767
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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