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Efficient Markets Theory...  Kwame Anthony Appiah writes,
Behavioral economics is bad enough. Do we need behavioral
philosophy?  Comments and Sharing  COMMENTS (6 to date) Neel
Krishnaswami writes:  Your rhetorical question has a non-
rhetorical answer: yes, we need it.  That's because we need
analytic philosophy in order to design new logical formalisms,
and we need those logical formalisms in order to design policy
languages for computer systems (e.g., for security purposes).
Since those policy languages will be used by people who don't
have PhD's in formal logic, it is important to understand the
implicit logic people are reasoning with.  For example, you can
view the Wason selection task either as evidence that people
reason badly, or as evidence that the semantics of natural
language conditionals are not actually classical propositional
implication, but something else, like deontic rules. See
Stenning and van Lambalgen's "A Little Logic Goe