Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science by Keith Stenning

Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science by Keith Stenning

A new proposal for integrating the employment of formal and empirical methods in the study of human reasoning.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.

Stenning, Keith: - Keith Stenning is Professor of Human Communication in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Seeing Reason and coauthor of Introduction to Cognition and Communication (MIT Press, 2006).

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ISBN 13	9780262517591
ISBN 10	0262517590
Title	Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science
Author	Keith Stenning
Series	Human Reasoning And Cognitive Science
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	2012-01-20
Number of pages	424
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