{"pk":27334,"title":"How could a rational analysis model explain?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Rational analysis is an influential but contested account of howprobabilistic modeling can be used to construct non-mechanistic but self-standing explanatory models of the mind.In this paper, I disentangle and assess several possibleexplanatory contributions which could be attributed to rationalanalysis. Although existing models suffer from evidentialproblems that question their explanatory power, I argue thatrational analysis modeling can complement mechanistictheorizing by providing models of environmental affordances.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"probabilistic modeling; rational analysis;scientific explanation; mechanism; affordance"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0p91r9w5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Samuli","middle_name":"","last_name":"Reijula","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Helsinki","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27334/galley/16970/download/"}]}