The Nature of Reasoning
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- Editors:
- Jacqueline P. Leighton, University of Alberta
- Robert J. Sternberg, Cornell University, New York
- Date Published: May 2012
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- isbn: 9781139239103
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We are bombarded with information - press releases, television news, internet websites, and office memos, just to name a few - on a daily basis. However, the important conclusions that may or need to be inferred from such information are typically not provided. We must draw the conclusions by ourselves. How do we draw these conclusions? This 2004 book addresses how we reason to reach sensible conclusions. The purpose of this book is to organise in one volume what is known about reasoning, such as its structural prerequisites, its mechanisms, its susceptibility to pragmatic influences, its pitfalls, and the bases for its development. Given that reasoning underlies so many of our intellectual activities - when we learn, criticise, analyse, judge, infer, evaluate, optimise, apply, discover, imagine, devise, and create - we stand to gain a great deal if we can learn to define, operate, apply, and nurture our reasoning.
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- Date Published: May 2012
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781139239103
- contains: 25 b/w illus. 12 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. Defining and describing reason
2. Reasoning and brain function
3. Working memory and reasoning
4. The role of prior belief in reasoning
5. Task understanding
6. Strategies and knowledge representation
7. Mental models and reasoning
8. Mental-logic theory: what it proposes and reasons to take this proposal seriously
9. Heuristics and reasoning: making deduction simple
10. Cognitive heuristics: reasoning the fast and frugal way
11. The assessment of logical reasoning
12. The development of deductive reasoning
13. The evolution of reasoning
14. Individual differences in thinking, reasoning, and decision making
15. Teaching reasoning
16. What do we know about the nature of reasoning?
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