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

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

9780262284295 (electronic bk.)
0262284294 (electronic bk.)
9781435654983 (electronic bk.)
1435654986 (electronic bk.)
9780262517591
0262517590
9780262195836 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262195836 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.

English

1 online resource (xii, 407 pages) : illustrations

BF311 .S67773 2008eb

153.4

"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.

"A Bradford book."

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