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Subject(s)

• Thought and thinking—Conditionals [Browse]
• Logic [Browse]
• Grammar, Comparative and general [Browse]

Contributor

• Chater, Nick [Browse]
• Oaksford, M [Browse]

Summary note

The conditional, if ... then, is probably the most important term in natural language and forms the core of systems of logic and mental representation. It is also the most researched expression in the psychology of human reasoning.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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English

Contents

• Machine generated contents note:
• 1. Cognition and conditionals: An Introduction, Mike Oaksford & Nick Chater Working Memory: Function, Representation, and Process Logic 2. The mental logic theory of conditional propositions, David O'Brien & Andrea Manfrinati 3. Conditionals and possibilities, Ruth Byrne & Phil Johnson-Laird 4. Logic and/in psychology: The paradoxes of material implication and psychologism in the cognitive science of human reasoning, Walter Schroyens 5. The logical response to a noisy world, Keith Stenning& Michiel van Lambalgen Probability 6. Conditionals and probability, Vittorio Girotto & Phil Johnson-Laird 7. Causal discounting and conditional reasoning in children, Nilufa Ali, Anne Schlottman, Abigail Shaw, Nick Chater, & Mike Oaksford 8. Conditionals and non-constructive reasoning, David Over, Jonathan Evans, & Shira Elqayam 9. The conditional in mental probability logic, Niki Pfeifer & Gernot Kleiter Long Term Memory: Function, Representation, and Process Logic 10. Semantic memory retrieval, mental models, and the development of conditional inferences in children, Henry Markovits 11. Counterexample retrieval and inhibition during conditional reasoning: Direct evidence from memory probing, Wim De Neys Probability 12. How semantic memory processes temper causal inferences, Denise Cummins 13. A successive-conditionalization approach to conditional reasoning, In-mao Liu 14. Pragmatic conditionals, conditional pragmatics, and the pragmatic component of conditional reasoning, Jean-Francois Bonnefon & Guy Politzer Integrative Approaches 15. Reasoning with conditionals in artificial intelligence, Bob Kowalski 16. Towards a reconciliation of mental model theory and probabilistic theories, Sonja Geiger & Klaus Oberauer 17. Conditional inference and constraint satisfaction: Reconciling mental models and the probabilistic approach?, Mike Oaksford & Nick Chater 18. Towards a metacognitive dual process theory of conditional reasoning, Valerie Thompson 19. A multi-layered dual-process approach to conditional reasoning, Niki Verschueren & Walter Schaeken 20. Two aspects of reasoning competence: A challenge for current accounts and a call for new conceptual tools, Guy Politzer & Jean-Francois Bonnefon Epilogue 21. Open issues in the cognitive science of conditionals, Nick Chater & Mike Oaksford.

Other title(s)

Cognition and conditionals

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