Seeing reason : image and language in learning to think / Keith Stenning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stenning, Keith.

Series:

Oxford cognitive science series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thinking.

Cognitive Science--methods.

Learning.

Logic.

Models, Psychological.

Thought and thinking.

Visual learning.

Reasoning.

Medical Subjects:

Thinking.

Cognitive Science--methods.

Learning.

Logic.

Models, Psychological.

Physical Description:

viii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Contents:

1 Swallowing squiggles

the internalization of formalisms 1

2 Representation systems 10

2.1 Systematicity 10

2.2 Significance and how it is assigned 19

2.3 Modality and the complexity of reasoning 33

2.4 Expressiveness and complexity through examples 44

2.5 Cognitive consequences of semantics 49

2.6 In summary 51

3 Hyperproof: industrial strength logic teaching 54

3.1 The world of blocks 54

3.2 What impact does introducing diagrams have on learning? 63

3.3 So, what happened? 66

3.4 But why are these the results? 68

3.5 But how general are these differences? 79

3.6 The diversity of intelligence and the status of g 88

4 Back to the Age of Reason 93

4.1 Syllogisms and ways of solving them 94

4.2 Psychological theories of syllogism solution 114

4.3 Teaching the syllogism graphically or sententially 125

5 Students' models of communication 135

5.1 Professor Grice's logic tutorial 135

5.2 The paradox of logic learning 136

5.3 A sketch of Grice's theory 137

5.4 Taking Grice into the laboratory 140

5.5 And how do they reason about syllogisms? 149

5.6 A rational reconstruction of kinds of student 153

5.7 Revisiting modalities 159

6 Form and content: three illustrations 165

6.1 Losing our shirts at cards 166

6.2 Analogical reasoning: content + content = form 195

6.3 Word meaning and logical semantics

abstract psychology or abstract sociology? 206

7 Individual, community, and system: human implementation of representations 221

7.1 Applying systems to behaviour

please mind the gap! 224

7.2 Implementation: logic as nature or logic as technology 236

7.3 System turned inwards 254

7.4 The implementation of systems in affective structure 259.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-286) and indexes.

ISBN:

0198507739

0198507747

OCLC:

60576430