Title
Kirsch's, and everyone's, bind: How to build models for the wild?
Abstract
Alexandra Kirsch proposed a general formal model of decision making. She proposed it as a model both of human psychology and of artificial intelligence. As one might expect, and as Don Ross explicated, this is a challenging, albeit fascinating, position to occupy. In this comment, I sketch my own view of the bind and speculate on how to get out of it. In one sentence, my description of the bind is: How to build models for the wild? By models, I mean formal (mathematical, computer-based, precise conceptual) models, and by the wild, I mean “large worlds,” which are situations where uncertainty cannot be meaningfully reduced to well-developed devices such as probability. I discuss solutions for getting out of the bind proposed in the cognitive science of decision making. And I discuss how another discipline, operations research, has attempted to get out of the bind.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10339-019-00914-1
Cognitive Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cognitive modeling, Decision making, Heuristics
Psychology,Cognitive psychology,Heuristics,Cognitive model,Sentence,Sketch
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
2
1612-4782
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos1739.68