Mental logic /
Title By: Braine, Martin D. S [Edited by] | O'Brien, David P [Edited by]
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Routledge, 2014.Description: vii, 481 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 978-1138012424Subject(s): Logic | ReasoningDDC classification: 160 Online resources: Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 160 ME NT (Browse shelf) | Available | T0016766 |
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160 FE AB About thinking / | 160 HA AR The art of critical thinking : | 160 HO JU Judgment and strategy / | 160 ME NT Mental logic / | 160 MO CR Critical thinking | 160 MO CR Critical thinking | 160 RU IN Invitation to critical thinking / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-472) and indexes.
Contents: D.P. O'Brien, Introduction: Some Background to the Mental-Logic Theory and to the Book. L. Bonatti, Why It Took So Long to Bake the Mental-Logic Cake: Historical Analysis of the Recipe and Its Ingredients. D.P. O'Brien, Mental Logic and Irrationality: We Can Put a Man on the Moon So Why Can't We Solve Those Logical Reasoning Problems? M.D.S. Braine, D.P. O'Brien, How to Investigate Mental Logic and the Syntax of Thought. R.B. Lea, Logical Inferences and Comprehension: How-Mental Logic and Text Processing Theories Need Each Other. M.D.S. Braine, D.P. O'Brien, The Theory of Mental-Propositional Logic: Description and Illustration. M.D.S. Braine, B.J. Reiser, B. Rumain, Evidence for the Theory: Predicting the Difficulty of Propositional Logic Inference Problems. M.D.S. Braine, D.P. O'Brien, I.A. Noveck, M.C. Samuels, R.B. Lea, S.M. Fisch, Y. Yang, Further Evidence for the Theory: Predicting Intermediate and Multiple Conclusions in Propositional Logic Inference Problems M.D.S. Braine, D.P. O'Brien, A Theory of If: A Lexical Entry, Reasoning Program, and Pragmatic Principles. D.P. O'Brien, M.G. Dias, A. Roazzi, M.D.S. Braine, Conditional Reasoning: The Logic of Supposition and Children's Understanding of Pretense. M.D.S. Braine, Steps Toward a Mental-Predicate Logic. Y. Yang, M.D.S. Braine, D.P. O'Brien, Some Empirical Justification of the Mental-Predicate-Logic Model. I.A. Noveck, G. Politzer, Leveling the Playing Field: Investigating Competing Claims Concerning Relative Inference Difficulty. D.P. O'Brien, M.G. Dias, A. Roazzi, A Case Study in the Mental Models and Mental-Logic Debate: Condition Syllogisms. D.P. O'Brien, M.G. Dias, J.R. Hosie, A Dubious Premise: Suppressibility of Modus Ponens. L. Bonatti, What the Mental Logic-Mental Models Controversy Is Not About. D.P. O'Brien, M.G. Dias, A. Roazzi, J.B. Cantor, Pinocchio's Nose Knows: Preschool Children Recognize That a Pragmatic Rule Can Be Violated, an Indicative Conditional Can Be Falsified, and That a Broken Promise Is a False Promise.
Over the past decade, the question of whether there is a mental logic has become subject to considerable debate. There have been attacks by critics who believe that all reasoning uses mental models and return attacks on mental-models theory. This controversy has invaded various journals and has created issues between mental logic and the biases-and-heuristics approach to reasoning, and the content-dependent theorists. However, despite its pertinence to current issues in cognition, few cognitive scientists really know what the mental-logic theory is, and misapprehensions are prevalent. This volume is a comprehensive presentation of the theory of mental logic and its implications for cognition and development, including the acquisition of language.