Psychology

Normative theory and the human mind

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Discusses H. E. Kyburg's (1983) article "Rational Belief" (see record 1984-11387-001), and questions his treatment of deductive logic and his extensional treatment of degrees of belief. It is contended that the continuing quest for normative theories in Western culture represents the human mind's attempt to transcend itself and to find a way to sanction its mode of operation in terms of higher-level principles. While Kyburg's theory seems adequate as a basis for decision theory or probabilistic inference, it omits the causal context in which beliefs are ordinarily generated.

Publication Title

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Publication Date

1985

Volume

8

Issue

4

First Page

750

Last Page

751

ISSN

0140-525X

DOI

10.1017/S0140525X00046070

Keywords

normative theory, H. E. Kyburg

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