Logic and Uncertainty in the Human Mind (eBook, ePUB)

A Tribute to David E. Over
Redaktion: Elqayam, Shira; Cruz, Nicole; Evans, Jonathan St B. T.; Douven, Igor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

David Earl Over is a leading cognitive scientist. With his firm grounding in philosophical logic, he is responsible for a large body of empirical work and for advancing a major shift in thinking about reasoning, commonly known as the 'new paradigm' in the psychology of human reasoning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351620413
• Artikelnr.: 59598656

Autorenporträt

Shira Elqayam is Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science at De Montfort University. Her research interests are in reasoning and rationality, with emphasis on normative thinking and rationality in context. Her work is interdisciplinary with many insights inspired by language and philosophy. Igor Douven is a philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is currently Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (INSHS). His main research interests are in concepts, conditionals, and rationality. Jonathan St. B. T. Evans is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Plymouth. He is best known for his work on conditionals and dual process theories of reasoning. He has conducted many studies of thinking, reasoning, and decision making since the 1970s, publishing numerous journal articles and several books on these topics. Nicole Cruz is a cognitive scientist at the University of New South Wales. In 2018, she received her PhD in Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London in conjunction with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EPHE) in Paris. Her main areas of research are reasoning and decision making under uncertainty, using tools from philosophical logic, experimental psychology, and computational modelling.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The contribution of David Over: An intellectual biography by
Ken Manktelow & Jonathan Evans
Chapter 2: Satisficing, meta-reasoning, and the rationality of further
deliberation by Rakefet Ackerman, Igor Douven, Shira Elqayam, & Kinneret
Teodorescu
Chapter 3: Deduction from uncertain premises? by Nicole Cruz
Chapter 4: Conditionals, truth conditions and indeterminacy by Dorothy
Edgington
Chapter 5: The suppositional conditional is not (just) the probability
conditional by Jonathan Evans
Chapter 6: Probabilistic entailment and iterated conditionals by Angelo
Gilio, Niki Pfeifer & Giuseppe Sanfilippo
Chapter 7: Two Systems for Thinking with a Community: Outsourcing versus
Collaboration by Babak Hemmatian & Steven Sloman
Chapter 8: Integrating causal Bayes nets and inferentialism in conditional
inference by Mike Oaksford & Nick Chater
Chapter 9: Objecting to uncertain conditional sentences: A cross-linguistic
study by Guy Politzer, Jean Baratgin, Ikuko Hattori, & Masasi Hattori
Chapter 10: Children's comprehension of conditional requests by Guy
Politzer, Frank Jamet, & Jean Baratgin
Chapter 11: Delusional rationality by Stephanie Rhodes, Niall Galbraith, &
Ken Manktelow
Chapter 12: Relevance and conditionals: A synopsis of open pragmatic and
semantic issues by Niels Skovgaard Olsen
Chapter 13: Correlation detection with and without the theory of
conditionals: A model update of Hattori & Oaksford (2007) by Tatsuji
Takahashi
Chapter 14: Working memory, autonomy, and dual process theories: A roadmap
by Valerie Thompson & Ian Newman
Chapter 15: The development of the new paradigm in the psychology of
reasoning by David Over