TY - BOOK ID - 30674107 TI - Human reasoning and cognitive science AU - Stenning, Keith AU - Lambalgen, Michiel van PY - 2008 SN - 0262284294 1435654986 0262293536 9780262284295 9781435654983 9780262517591 0262517590 9780262195836 0262195836 9780262293532 PB - Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Cognitive science. KW - Reasoning. KW - Logic. KW - Argumentation KW - Deduction (Logic) KW - Deductive logic KW - Dialectic (Logic) KW - Logic, Deductive KW - Ratiocination KW - Intellect KW - Philosophy KW - Psychology KW - Science KW - Reasoning KW - Thought and thinking KW - Reason KW - Judgment (Logic) KW - Logic KW - Philosophy of mind KW - Methodology KW - COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General KW - COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30674107 AB - "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. They draw examples from deductive reasoning, from the child's development of understandings of mind, from analysis of a psychiatric disorder (autism), and from the search for the evolutionary origins of human higher mental processes."--Jacket. ER -