Books like Bayesian Rationality
Loved Bayesian Rationality by M. Oaksford? Here are 8 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
About Bayesian Rationality →8 books
- 1Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel KahnemanIt is a popular account of the heuristics-and-biases research that Bayesian Rationality argues against, so it gives the view the book is responding to.
Books like it → - 2Gut Feelings
Gut Feelings
Gerd GigerenzerIt argues that simple heuristics can be rational in the environments where they are used, a view close to the book's claim that good reasoning depends on context.
- 3The Enigma of Reason
The Enigma of Reason
Dan SperberIt offers an evolutionary and argumentative account of reasoning that also challenges the idea that the mind is mainly a logic engine.
- 4Rationality
Rationality
Steven PinkerIt is a broad and readable defense of rationality as a standard, which makes a useful contrast to the book's probabilistic redefinition.
- 5Risk Savvy
Risk Savvy
Gerd GigerenzerIt applies the idea of ecological rationality to everyday choices under uncertainty, a practical companion to the book's theoretical argument.
- 6Noise
Noise
Cass R. SunsteinIt examines variability in human judgment and decision making, touching the same questions about how judgment should be evaluated.
- 7Superforecasting
Superforecasting
Dan GardnerIt shows how probabilistic thinking and updating on evidence can be practised and measured in forecasting.
- 8Predictably Irrational
Predictably Irrational
Dan ArielyIt is a popular account of systematic departures from rational choice, the phenomenon the Bayesian account reinterprets.
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