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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Reasoning. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2008 (DLC) 2007038693 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jonathan Eric Adler; Lance J Rips |
ISBN: | 0511456042 9780511457357 0511457359 9780511456046 9780511814273 0511814275 9780511454288 0511454287 9786611944674 6611944672 0511453337 9780511453335 |
OCLC Number: | 304174052 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 1057 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Part I. Foundations of Reasoning -- Some philosophical viewpoints -- Fallacies and rationality -- Part II. Modes of Reasoning -- Deductive reasoning -- Induction -- Dual and integrative approaches -- Abduction and belief change -- Causal and counterfactual reasoning -- Argumentation -- Part III. Interactions of Reasoning in Human Thought -- Reasoning and pragmatics -- Domain-specific, goal-based, and evolutionary approaches -- Reasoning across cultures -- Biology, emotions, and reasoning. |
Responsibility: | edited by Jonathan E. Adler and Lance J. Rips. |
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"This book provides a very comprehensive, almost encyclopedic overview in the general area of reasoning. It encompasses psychological research and philosophical considerations of inductive paradoxes, along with useful sections on argumentation, reasoning and cultures, emotions and reasoning, abduction, and belief change. [...] Readers would benefit from a background in introductory logic or a familiarity with the history and practice of formal reasoning, especially for those articles in which formalization predominates over natural language. [...], this worthwhile book will benefit a wide range of readers since most of the articles deal with problems and issues that are fundamental to understanding the various ways that reasoning works, can work in context, or could work to inform prescriptions in ethics or arguments addressed to the best explanations. Recommended." --J. Gough, Red Deer College, CHOICE Read more...

