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The science of reason : a Festschrift for Jonathan St. B.T Evans / edited by Ken Manktelow, David Over, and Shira Elqayam.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Psychology Press festschrifts.
- Psychology Press Festschrift Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reasoning (Psychology).
- Thought and thinking.
- Problem solving.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (473 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Psychology Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume is a state-of-the-art survey of the psychology of reasoning, based around, and in tribute to, one of the field's most eminent figures: Jonathan St B.T. Evans. In this collection of cutting edge research, Evans' collaborators and colleagues review a wide range of important and developing areas of inquiry. These include biases in thinking, probabilistic and causal reasoning, people's use of 'if' sentences in arguments, the dual-process theory of thought, and the nature of human rationality. These foundational issues are examined from various angles and finally integrated in
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Thinking and reasoning : psychological approaches
- pt. 2. If
- pt. 3. Dual processes and beyond
- pt. 4. Rationality and reasoning
- pt. 5. Perspectives on thinking and reasoning.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-93908-3
- 1-136-93909-1
- 1-283-03741-6
- 9786613037411
- 0-203-84712-1
- 9780203847121
- OCLC:
- 798532846
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