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Seeking Chances to Extend Human Rationality

Review of Emanuele Bardone (2011). Seeking Chances. From Biased Rationality to Distributed Cognition. New York: Springer.

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Secchi, D. Seeking Chances to Extend Human Rationality. Biosemiotics 6, 291–296 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-013-9163-y

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