How We Reason

by Johnson-Laird, Philip N.

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Full title :How We Reason.

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Publication Date:2008.

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008.

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Good reasoning can lead to success; bad reasoning can lead to catastrophe. Yet it's not obvious how we reason, and why we make mistakes. This book by one of the pioneers of the field, Philip Johnson-Laird, looks at the mental processes that underlie our reasoning. It provides the most accessible account yet of the science of reasoning.

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Description:573 s

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ISBN:0199551332, 9780199551330, 0198569769, 9780198569763
oclc:ocn476320277
Dewey Decimal:153.4/3

1. Introduction; PART I -- THE WORLD IN OUR CONSCIOUS MINDS; 2. Icons and Imag 3. Models of Possibilities:Reasoning About Identities and Other Relations; 10. Syllogisms and Reasoning about Properties; 11. Isn't Everyone a Optimist? The Case of Complex Reasoning; PART IV -- HOW WE MAKE INDUCTIONS; 12 Modulation: A Step Towards Induction; 13. Knowledge and Inductions; 14. Sherlock Holmes's Method: Abduction; 15. The Balance of Probabilities; PART V WHAT MAKES US RATIONAL; 16. Counterexamples; 17. Truths, Lies, and the Higher Reasoning; PART VI -- HOW WE DEVELOP OUR ABILITY TO REASON; 18. On Development; 19. Strategies and Cultures; 20. How We can Improve our Reasoning; PART VII -- KNOWLEDGE, BELIEFS, AND PROBLEMS; 21. The Puzzles of If; 22. Causes and Obligations; 23. Beliefs, Heresies, and Changes in Mind; 24. How we Solve Problems; PART VIII -- EXPERT REASONING IN TECHNOLOGY, LOGIC, AND SCIENCE; 25. Flying Bicycles: How the Wright Brothers Invented the Airplane; 26. Unwrapping an Enigma; 27. On the Mode of the Communication of Cholera; 28. How we Reason / From Conjuring Tricks to Disasters; PART II -- THE WORLD IN OUR UNCONSCIOUS MINDS; 4. Mental Architecture and the Unconscious; …