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3Jay L. Garfield, ed., Foundations of Cognitive Science Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 11 (4): 225-230. 1991.
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1Geoffrey Brown, Minds, Brains and Machines Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 11 (4): 225-230. 1991.
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Dennett and the Darwin warsIn Andrew Brook & Don Ross (eds.), Daniel Dennett, Cambridge University Press. 2002.
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96Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics NaturalizedIn James Ladyman & Don Ross (eds.), Every thing must go: metaphysics naturalized, Oxford University Press. 2007.This book argues that the only kind of metaphysics that can contribute to objective knowledge is one based specifically on contemporary science as it really is, and not on philosophers' a priori intuitions, common sense, or simplifications of science. In addition to showing how recent metaphysics has drifted away from connection with all other serious scholarly inquiry as a result of not heeding this restriction, this book demonstrates how to build a metaphysics compatible with current fundament…Read more
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17The Alleged Coupling/Constitution Fallacy and Mature SciencesIn Richard Menary (ed.), The Extended Mind, Mit Press. 2010.
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20The Alleged Coupling/Constitution Fallacy and Mature SciencesIn Richard Menary (ed.), The Extended Mind, Bradford Book. 2010.
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28Varieties of paternalism and the heterogeneity of utility structuresJournal of Economic Methodology 25 (1): 42-67. 2018.A principal source of interest in behavioral economics has been its advertised contributions to policies aimed at ‘nudging’ people away from allegedly natural but self-defeating behavior toward patterns of response thought more likely to improve their welfare. This has occasioned controversies among economists and philosophers around the normative limits of paternalism, especially by technical policy advisors. One recent suggestion has been that ‘boosting,’ in which interventions aim to enhance …Read more
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44The psychology of human risk preferences and vulnerability to scare-mongers: experimental economic tools for hypothesis formulation and testingJournal of Cognition and Culture 16 (5): 383-414. 2016.The Internet and social media have opened niches for political exploitation of human dispositions to hyper-alarmed states that amplify perceived threats relative to their objective probabilities of occurrence. Researchers should aim to observe the dynamic “ramping up” of security threat mechanisms under controlled experimental conditions. Such research necessarily begins from a clear model of standard baseline states, and should involve adding treatments to established experimental protocols dev…Read more
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39The empirical adequacy of cumulative prospect theory and its implications for normative assessmentJournal of Economic Methodology 24 (2): 150-165. 2017.Much behavioral welfare economics assumes that expected utility theory does not accurately describe most human choice under risk. A substantial literature instead evaluates welfare consequences by taking cumulative prospect theory as the natural default alternative, at least where description is concerned. We present evidence, based on a review of previous literature and new experimental data, that the most empirically adequate hypothesis about human choice under risk is that it is heterogeneous…Read more
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31Bargaining for Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: A Game-Theoretic AnalysisSouth African Journal of Philosophy 20 (1): 66-89. 2001.As regimes move from illiberal to liberal, post-transition justice methodology has been employed to engender truth and reconciliation. These normative concepts have evolved into a policy of creating truth and reconciliation commissions that trade civil and criminal amnesty with applicants in exchange for information. This bargained-for exchange can be analyzed as an imperfect information game, where the commission attempts to maximize information while the applicant seeks amnesty for the lowest …Read more
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11Metaphor, Meaning, and CognitionPeter Lang. 1993.This book explores and offers solutions to a range of conceptual and philosophical problems that underlie attempts to understand metaphor processing in the context of cognitive science. The author vigorously criticizes the prevailing philosophical prejudice against traditional «comparison» theories of metaphor, arguing that the problems with the comparison theory are exciting problems that demand solutions, rather than grounds for rejecting the theory itself. Furthermore, it is through these pro…Read more
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Elias Savellos and Ümit Yalçin, Supervenience: New Essays (review)Philosophy in Review 17 134-137. 1997.
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Elias Savellos and Ümit Yalçin, Supervenience: New Essays Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (2): 134-137. 1997.
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61Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: MicroexplanationBradford. 2007.In this study, Don Ross explores the relationship of economics to other branches of behavioral science, asking, in the course of his analysis, under what interpretation economics is a sound empirical science. The book explores the relationships between economic theory and the theoretical foundations of related disciplines that are relevant to the day-to-day work of economics -- the cognitive and behavioral sciences. It asks whether the increasingly sophisticated techniques of microeconomic analy…Read more
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3Economic models of procrastinationIn Chrisoula Andreou & Mark D. White (eds.), The Thief of Time, Oxford University Press. pp. 28--50. 2010.
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1Is Cognitive Science a Discipline?In David Martel Johnson & Christina E. Erneling (eds.), The Future of the Cognitive Revolution, Oxford University Press. pp. 102--108. 1997.
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112The World in the DataIn Don Ross, James Ladyman & Harold Kincaid (eds.), Scientific metaphysics, Oxford University Press. pp. 108-150. 2013.
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Introduction: The New Philosophy of EconomicsIn Harold Kincaid & Don Ross (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics, Oxford University Press. pp. 3--54. 2009.
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28Dennettian Behavioural Explanations and the Roles of the Social SciencesIn Andrew Brook & Don Ross (eds.), Daniel Dennett, Cambridge University Press. pp. 140--83. 2002.
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1910 The Economic and Evolutionary Basis of SelvesIn Don Ross, David Spurrett, Harold Kincaid & G. Lynn Stephens (eds.), Distributed Cognition and the Will: Individual Volition and Social Context, Mit Press. pp. 197. 2007.
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57Quantum probability, choice in large worlds, and the statistical structure of realityBehavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (3): 305-306. 2013.Classical probability models of incentive response are inadequate in where the dimensions of relative risk and the dimensions of similarity in outcome comparisons typically differ. Quantum probability models for choice in large worlds may be motivated pragmatically or metaphysically: statistical processing in the brain adapts to the true scale-relative structure of the universe
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233Scientific metaphysics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.Original essays by leading philosophers of science explore the question of whether metaphysics can and should be naturalized--conducted as part of natural science.
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127Distributed Cognition and the Will: Individual Volition and Social Context (edited book)MIT Press. 2007.Philosophers and behavioral scientists discuss what, if anything, of the traditionalconcept of individual conscious will can survive recent scientific discoveries that humandecision-making is distributed across different brain processes and ...
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4People differ in the extent to which they discount the values of future rewards. Behavioural economists measure these differences in terms of functions that describe rates of reduced valuation in the future – temporal discounting – as these vary with time. They measure differences in preference for risk – differing rates of probability discounting – in terms of similar functions that describe reduced valuation of rewards as the probability of their delivery falls. So-called ‘impulsive’ people, i…Read more