Inductive reasoning : experimental, developmental, and computational approaches / edited by Aidan Feeney, Evan Heit.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feeney, Aidan, 1971- editor.

Heit, Evan, 1965- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reasoning (Psychology).

Induction (Logic).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 355 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Without inductive reasoning, we couldn't generalize from one instance to another, derive scientific hypotheses, or predict that the sun will rise again tomorrow morning. Despite the widespread nature of inductive reasoning, books on this topic are rare. Indeed, this is the first book on the psychology of inductive reasoning in twenty years. The chapters survey recent advances in the study of inductive reasoning and address questions about how it develops, the role of knowledge in induction, how best to model people's reasoning, and how induction relates to other forms of thinking. Written by experts in philosophy, developmental science, cognitive psychology, and computational modeling, the contributions here will be of interest to a general cognitive science audience as well as to those with a more specialized interest in the study of thinking.

Contents:

Preface / Aidan Feeney and Evan Heit

What is induction and why study it? / Evan Heit

The development of inductive reasoning / Brett K. Hayes

Interpreting asymmetries of projection in children's inductive reasoning / Douglas l. Medin and Sandra Waxman

Property generalization as causal reasoning / Bob Rehder

Availability in category-based induction / Patrick Shafto, John D. Coley and Anna Vitkin

From similarity to chance sergey blok / Daniel Osherson and Douglas L. Medin

Theory-based bayesian models of inductive reasoning / Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Charles Spence & Patrick Shafto

Use of single or multiple categories in category-based induction / Gregory L. Murphy and Brian H. Ross

Abductive inference : from philosophical analysis to neural mechanisms / Paul Thagard

Mathematical induction and induction in mathematics / Lance J. Rips and Jennifer Asmuth

Induction, deduction and argument strength in human reasoning and argumentation / Mike Oaksford and Ulrike Hahn

Individual differences, dual processes, and induction / Aidan Feeney

Taxonomising induction / Steven Sloman.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-17704-9

1-281-08540-5

9786611085407

0-511-34231-4

0-511-34179-2

0-511-34121-0

0-511-56861-4

0-511-61930-8

0-511-34284-5

OCLC:

476123783