Reasoning: Studies of Human Inference and its Foundations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521612748 ISBN 13: 9780521612746

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This interdisciplinary work is a collection of major essays on reasoning: deductive, inductive, abductive, belief revision, defeasible (non-monotonic), cross cultural, conversational, and argumentative. They are each oriented toward contemporary empirical studies. The book focuses on foundational issues, including paradoxes, fallacies, and debates about the nature of rationality, the traditional modes of reasoning, as well as counterfactual and causal reasoning. It also includes chapters on the interface between reasoning and other forms of thought. In general, this last set of essays represents growth points in reasoning research, drawing connections to pragmatics, cross-cultural studies, emotion and evolution.

About this title

Book Description:

This interdisciplinary work is a collection of major essays on reasoning: deductive, inductive, abductive, belief revision, defeasible (non-monotonic), cross cultural, conversational, and argumentative. The book focuses on foundational issues, including paradoxes, fallacies, and debates about the nature of rationality, the traditional modes of reasoning as well as counterfactual and causal reasoning. It also includes chapters on the interface between reasoning and other forms of thought.

About the Author:

Jonathan E. Adler is Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, City University of New York. His D.Phil. in philosophy is from Oxford University. His main areas of research are epistemology, philosophy of psychology, informal logic, ethics, and philosophy of education. In 2002, he published Belief's Own Ethics.

Lance Rips received his Ph.D. from the Psychology Department at Stanford University in 1974 and taught at the University of Chicago from 1974 to 1993. Since 1993, Rips has been a Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University. He is on the editorial board of Cognition, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Informal Logic.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521612748
• ISBN 13: 9780521612746
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1072
• Editor: Adler Jonathan E., Rips Lance J.