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Intractability and the use of heuristics in psychological explanations |
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| Authors: | Iris van Rooij Cory D Wright Todd Wareham |
| Institution: | 1. Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2. Department of Philosophy, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, USA 3. Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John??s, NL, Canada |
| Abstract: | Many cognitive scientists, having discovered that some computational-level characterization f of a cognitive capacity ${\phi}$ is intractable, invoke heuristics as algorithmic-level explanations of how cognizers compute f. We argue that such explanations are actually dysfunctional, and rebut five possible objections. We then propose computational-level theory revision as a principled and workable alternative. |
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