Inquiry under bounds (Part 5: Applying the account)
This post applies the reason-responsive consequentialist view of rational inquiry to shed light on bounded rationality, the Standard Picture, and the epistemology of inquiry.
Category: Epistemology
Inquiry under bounds (Part 4: Justifying the account)
This post gives three arguments for the reason-responsive consequentialist view of rational inquiry.
Inquiry under bounds (Part 3: A theory of rational inquiry)
This post develops a theory of rational inquiry for bounded agents: the reason-responsive consequentialist view.
Inquiry under bounds (Part 2: Rationality at the crossroads)
This post introduces bounded rationality by contrasting it with a received Standard Picture of rationality.
Inquiry under bounds (Part 1: Introduction)
This post begins a five-part series introducing David Thorstad’s book, Inquiry under bounds.
Précis of Thinking in Images
Let me start with a couple of examples. Look at the night sky and try to find the Big Dipper. At first, you see an unordered magnitude of astronomical objects. A star chart can guide you in your task. The chart helps you to localize objects in the night sky. …
The Pragmatic Use of Metaphor in Empirical Psychology
In this post, I explore how analogical modes of explanation have been used in empirical psychology to loop together data derived through experiments and descriptive explanation. Metaphor has been used to transcend the limitations of experiments on human subjects because it allows for framing higher-level interpretation of data through notions …