van Rooij, Iris and Wright, Cory and Wareham, Todd
(2012)
Intractability and the use of heuristics in psychological explanations.
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Abstract
Many cognitive scientists, having discovered that some computational-level characterization f of a cognitive capacity φ is intractable, invoke heuristics as algorithmic-level explanations of how cognizers compute f. We argue that such explanations are actually dysfunctional, and rebut five possible objections. We then propose computational-level theory revision as a principled and workable alternative.
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