Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science (MIT Press)
By Unknown Author.
Description
A new proposal for integrating the employment of formal and empirical methods in the study of human reasoning.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 ...
ISBN(s)
0262195836, 9780262195836
