Reasoning
Studies of Human Inference and its Foundations
- Edited by: Jonathan E. Adler, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
- Edited by: Lance J. Rips, Northwestern University, Illinois
- Gilbert Harman, Bas C. van Fraassen, Bernard Williams, R. M. Sainsbury, Jon Elster, Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman, L. Jonathan Cohen, George Ainslie, Lance J. Rips, Philip N. Johnson-Laird, Keith Stenning, Michael van Lambalgen, Bart Geurts, Achille C. Varzi, Henry E. Kyburg, Jr., Peter Gardenfors, Daniel N. Osherson, Edward E Smith, Ormond Wilkie, Alejandro Lopez, Eldar Shafir, Steven A. Sloman, Evan Heit, Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater, Ulrike Hahn, Keith E. Stanovich, Jonathan St. B. T. Evans, David E. Over, Ken I. Manktelow, John Pollock, Paul Thagard, Hans Rott, Issac Levi, Jamin Halberstadt, Timothy D. Wilson, Reneé Elio, Frances Je, Lance J. Rips, David Lewis, Robert C. Stalnaker, Daniel Kahneman, Carol A. Varey, Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Deanna Kuhn, Lance J. Rips, Elijah Milligram, Jonathan Adler, H. Paul Grice, Dennis J. Hilton, Susan Carey, Elizabeth Spelke, Patricia W. Cheng, Keith J. Holyoak, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Dan Sperber, Vittorio Girotto, Jerry Fodor, Jerry Fodor, Brian Skyrms, Russell C. Burnett, Douglas L. Medin, Richard E. Nisbett, Kaiping Peng, Incheol Choi, Ara Norenzayan, Donald Davidson, Bernard Williams, Ronald de Sousa, Jonathan Haidt, Daniel Osherson, Daniella Perani, Stefano Cappa, Tatiana Schnur, Franco Grassi, Ferruccio Fazio
- ISBN:9780521848152
- Publication date:July 2008
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.
