Inference to the best action and its basis in clinical expertise
Can contemporary cognitive science explain clinical expertise? We argue that the answer could be “no.” In support of this, we provide an analysis of two of the most essential expressions of clinical expertise in nursing and medicine, the ability to run a code blue and the ability to diagnose congest...
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| description | Can contemporary cognitive science explain clinical expertise? We argue that the answer could be “no.” In support of this, we provide an analysis of two of the most essential expressions of clinical expertise in nursing and medicine, the ability to run a code blue and the ability to diagnose congestive heart failure. We show how it makes sense to treat both as examples of what we call inference to the best action, and we then argue that two of the standard explanatory paradigms of cognitive science — the Humean and Bayesian paradigms — are unable to provide a plausible analysis of inference to the best action. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f68a3762d16d4939a96b15370d7e2e532023-11-27T06:54:02ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-11-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.10324531032453Inference to the best action and its basis in clinical expertiseMark Fedyk0Mark Fedyk1Jessica Draughon Moret2Nicolas T. Sawyer3Division of General Internal Medicine and Bioethics, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United StatesBetty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, United StatesBetty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, United StatesDepartment of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, United StatesCan contemporary cognitive science explain clinical expertise? We argue that the answer could be “no.” In support of this, we provide an analysis of two of the most essential expressions of clinical expertise in nursing and medicine, the ability to run a code blue and the ability to diagnose congestive heart failure. We show how it makes sense to treat both as examples of what we call inference to the best action, and we then argue that two of the standard explanatory paradigms of cognitive science — the Humean and Bayesian paradigms — are unable to provide a plausible analysis of inference to the best action.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1032453/fullinference to the best explanationclinical expertisenursing sciencemedical expertisescientific modelsclinical models |
| spellingShingle | Mark Fedyk Mark Fedyk Jessica Draughon Moret Nicolas T. Sawyer Inference to the best action and its basis in clinical expertise Frontiers in Psychology inference to the best explanation clinical expertise nursing science medical expertise scientific models clinical models |
| title | Inference to the best action and its basis in clinical expertise |
| title_full | Inference to the best action and its basis in clinical expertise |
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| title_short | Inference to the best action and its basis in clinical expertise |
| title_sort | inference to the best action and its basis in clinical expertise |
| topic | inference to the best explanation clinical expertise nursing science medical expertise scientific models clinical models |
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