Human reasoning and cognitive science / Keith Stenning and Michiel van Lambalgen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stenning, Keith.

Contributor:

Lambalgen, Michiel van, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive science.

Reasoning.

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science, Keith Stenning and Michiel van Lambalgen - a cognitive scientist and a logician - argue for the indispensability of modern mathematical logic to the study of human reasoning. Logic and cognition were once closely connected, they write, but were "divorced" in the past century; the psychology of deduction went from being central to the cognitive revolution to being the subject of widespread skepticism about whether human reasoning really happens outside the academy. Stenning and van Lambalgen argue that logic and reasoning have been separated because of a series of unwarranted assumptions about logic." "Stenning and van Lambalgen contend that psychology cannot ignore processes of interpretation in which people, wittingly or unwittingly, frame problems for subsequent reasoning. The authors employ a neurally implementable defeasible logic for modeling part of this framing process, and show how it can be used to guide the design of experiments and interpret results. They draw examples from deductive reasoning, from the child's development of understandings of mind, from analysis of a psychiatric disorder (autism), and from the search for the evolutionary origins of human higher mental processes."--Jacket.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Part I Groundwork

1 Introduction: Logic and Psychology

2 The Anatomy of Logic

3 A Little Logic Goes a Long Way

4 From Logic via Exploration to Controlled Experiment

5 From the Laboratory to the Wild and Back Again

6 The Origin of Human Reasoning Capacities

Part II Modeling

7 Planning and Reasoning: The Suppression Task

8 Implementing Reasoning in Neural Networks

9 Coping with Nonmonotonicity in Autism

10 Syllogisms and Beyond

Part III Is Psychology Hard or Impossible?

11 Rationality Revisited

Bibliography

Citation Index

General Index.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-390) and indexes.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262293532

0262293536

9780262284295

0262284294

9781435654983

1435654986

OCLC:

646754037