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Laboratory for the Philosophy and Psychology of Rationality and Decision About LPPRD People Research Events Opportunities Contact Within the Laboratory for the Philosophy and Psychology of Rationality and Decision (LPPRD), we study the mind through formal theories of representational content based on notions like questions and exact truth-making, and we conduct relevant experiments. One of the main theoretical contributions of work in LPPRD has been the erotetic theory, according to which the aim of resolving questions is central to how the mind works. This line of inquiry has yielded a theory of our natural reasoning and decision-making capacity that accounts for empirically documented breakdowns like tempting fallacies and framing-effects, but that also explains the possibility of classical rationality. According to the erotetic theory, our minds naturally aim at answering questions as directly as possible, and if we are inquisitive enough in the process, we can get the kind of rationality required for science, philosophy, and classical economic agents as a special case. Our work has led to the discovery of new framing effects in moral judgment, models of distraction and of delusional thinking, several new tempting reasoning fallacies, and a large-scale computer simulation of how fisherman decision-making interacts with marine ecology. Highlights Poster with Jens Madsen, Ernesto Carella, and Richard Bailey at 2016 Cognitive Science Society Meeting. News [October 2016] Beau Mount joins LPPRD as a post-doc! [September 10th, 2016] Koralus gives Keynote Lecture at Poznan Reasoning Week, University of Poznan, Poland. [July-August 2016] Koralus, Madsen, and Mascarenhas presentations at International Conference on Thinking at Brown University, and Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Philadelphia. [July 27th, 2016.] Koralus talk “Some reflections on mental models: mind, language, and society," at Vittorio Girotto Memorial Conference, Birkbeck College, London. [June 8th, 2016] Koralus talk at London Judgment and Decision Making seminar, University College London [June 1-4, 2016] Koralus and Alfano Presentation at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology Meeting, University of Texas at Austin. [May 4th -5th, 2016] Koralus lectures at University of Barcelona/LOGOS [April 13, 2016] Koralus and Madsen presentation at Ocean Conservancy POSEIDON meeting, New Orleans [January 2016] Jens Madsen joins LPPRD and the POSEIDON project as a post-doc! St. Catherine's College | Manor Road | Oxford | OX1 3UJ | UK