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Naturalizing Decision Making: Heuristics and Concerns

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This chapter, Naturalizing Decision Making, places human reasoning as core pieces of adaptation, aids and heuristics in problem solving. The metaphors are about adapting. Diverse metaphors underlie our considerations of the brain. They also underlie human decision making.

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Schulkin, J. (2019). Naturalizing Decision Making: Heuristics and Concerns. In: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism and Neuroscience. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23100-2_8

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