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"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.

Cognitive science. --- Reasoning. --- Logic. --- Argumentation --- Deduction (Logic) --- Deductive logic --- Dialectic (Logic) --- Logic, Deductive --- Ratiocination --- Intellect --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Science --- Reasoning --- Thought and thinking --- Reason --- Judgment (Logic) --- Logic --- Philosophy of mind --- Methodology --- COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General --- COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology

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The articles in this volume are the outcome of the successful BRIDGE Workshop held in Düsseldorf in 2014. The workshop gathered a number of distinguished researchers from formal semantics and conceptual semantics and aimed to initiate a deeper conversation and collaboration instead of separating the two sides as competing views. The workshop provided a platform to further discuss parallelisms on specific semantic issues on the one hand and on the other hand to confront opposed claims from the two different perspectives. This volume represents a selected number of high-quality papers presented at the workshop featuring various approaches to meaning from linguistics, logic and philosophy of language. This series explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center 'The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General. --- Alex Dainiak. --- Antje Roßdeutscher. --- BRIDGE Workshop. --- Collaborative Research Center. --- Dependency. --- Die Struktur von Repräsentationen in Sprache, Kognition und Wissenschaft. --- E. Allyn Smith. --- Gerhard Schurz. --- Gricean Perspective. --- Hana Filip. --- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. --- Henk Zeevat. --- Kinds. --- Laura Kallmeyer. --- Live Meanings. --- Lotte Hogeweg. --- Louise McNally. --- Martin Stokhof. --- Meaning in Use. --- Michiel van Lambalgen. --- Natalia Zevakhina. --- Paul Dekker. --- Peter Indefrey. --- Ralf Naumann. --- Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. --- SFB 991. --- Sander Lestrade. --- Scott Grimm. --- Sebastian Löbner. --- Sonderforschungsbereich 991. --- The structure of representations in language, cognition and science. --- Tillmann Pross. --- conceptual closeness. --- conceptual semantics. --- corpus-based approach. --- dynamic frame theory. --- formal semantics. --- frame theory. --- lexicon. --- linguistic representation. --- linguistic structure. --- mental representation. --- overspecification. --- semantic constraint.