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131Occam’s Razor in science: a case study from biogeographyBiology and Philosophy 22 (2): 193-215. 2007.
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24Does the inherence herutistic take s to psychological essentialism?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (5): 494-495. 2014.We argue that the claim that essence-based causal explanations emerge, hydra-like, from an inherence heuristic is incomplete. No plausible mechanism for the transition from concrete properties, or cues, to essences is provided. Moreover, the fundamental shotgun and storytelling mechanisms of the inherence heuristic are not clearly enough specified to distinguish them, developmentally, from associative or causal networks.
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64Propositional learning is a useful research heuristic but it is not a theoretical algorithmBehavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (2): 199-200. 2009.Mitchell et al.'s claim, that their propositional theory is a single-process theory, is illusory because they relegate some learning to a secondary memory process. This renders the single-process theory untestable. The propositional account is not a process theory of learning, but rather, a heuristic that has led to interesting research