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Adaptationism and Rationality - Leda Cosmides

Conférence de Leda Cosmides dans le cadre des conférences et Prix Jean Nicod 2020 sur le thème "The Adaptationist Revolution and the Transformation of the Cognitive Sciences", cycle de quatre conférences. Deuxième Conférence Adaptationism and Rationality - Leda Cosmides Lundi 20 Septembre - 14h00 École Normale Supérieure, Salle Jean-Jaurès 29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris How the mind works can be illuminated by comparing human cognition to standards of good design specified by a normative theory. But which standards are appropriate for an evolved organism ? What counts as a rational inference or choice for animals like us, whose minds were designed by natural selection ? Research using normative theories from mathematics and logic painted human cognition as irrational, riddled with errors, biases, and flawed heuristics. Yet natural reasoning systems negotiate the complex natural tasks of their world with a level of operational success far surpassing that of the most sophisticated existing artificial intelligence systems. What is the resolution to this paradox ? From the perspective of evolutionary biology, the problem is not that our thinking is irrational ; it is how psychology has been defining and testing for rationality. With six case studies, we show how this approach can uncover sophisticated cognitive mechanisms, and illustrate the pitfalls of studying the computational systems that produce reasoning without reference to the ancestral problems and environments that selected for their design.