Raymond S. Nickerson

Conditional Reasoning

The Unruly Syntactics, Semantics, Thematics, and Pragmatics of "If"

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reviews the work of prominent psychologists and philosophers on conditional reasoning. It provides empirical research on how people deal with conditional arguments and examines how conditional statements are used and interpreted in everyday communication.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 711g
• ISBN-13: 9780190675660
• ISBN-10: 0190675667
• Artikelnr.: 47974285

Autorenporträt

Raymond S. Nickerson is Research Professor of Psychology at Tufts University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Getting Started
2. Conditionals
3. Experimental Approaches to the Study of Conditional Reasoning
4. Logic and Conditional Reasoning
5. Syntactics, Semantics, and Pragmatics in Conditional Reasoning
6. Rule Checking
7. Counterfactual Thinking
8. Counterfactual Thinking 2
9. Conditional Reasoning as Probabilistic Reasoning
10. The Probability of the Conditional and the Conditional Probability
11. Individual Differences
12. Theoretical Accounts of Conditional Reasoning
13. More Theoretical Accounts
14. Final Comments
References
Index