The Brains Pod

This post applies the reason-responsive consequentialist view of rational inquiry to shed light on bounded rationality, the Standard Picture, and the epistemology of inquiry.

This post gives three arguments for the reason-responsive consequentialist view of rational inquiry.

This post develops a theory of rational inquiry for bounded agents: the reason-responsive consequentialist view.

This post introduces bounded rationality by contrasting it with a received Standard Picture of rationality.

This post begins a five-part series introducing David Thorstad's book, Inquiry under bounds.

There were some really good papers last month. The three I picked to summarize all involve error-based learning on fast time-scales. One involves the cerebellum in monkeys, the other involves the songbird system in…songbirds. One reason I like these examples is because they illustrate how deeply error-sensitivity is knitted into …