The heuristics debate
By: Mark Kelman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780199755608
Subjects: Effectiveness and validity of law; Methodology; Law; Heuristic
Description: All of use heuristics - that is, we reach conclusions using shorthand cues without utilizing or analyzing all of the available information at hand. Here, Kelman takes a step back from the chaos of competing academic debates to consider the wealth of knowledge that a more expansive use of heuristics can open up.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The framework; title: The heuristics and biases school; title: The fast and frugal heuristics school; title: Fast and frugal school objections to the heuristics and biases program; title: Objections to the fast and frugal school program; title: Criminal punishment and cognition; title: Regulating markets; title: Cognition and value incommensurability; title: Classical orthodoxy and legal realist responses through the lens of the heuristics debate.