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Space to reason :a spatial theory of human thought
"Many scholars believe that visual mental imagery plays a key role in reasoning. In Space to Reason, Markus Knauff argues against this view, proposing that visual images are not relevant for reasoning and can even impede the process. He also argues against the claim that human thinking is solely based on abstract symbols and is completely embedded in language. Knauff proposes a third way to thi…
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- 1 online resource (290 pages)
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How to talk to a science denier
"In How to Talk to a Science Denier, Lee McIntyre tells the story of his own adventures in talking face to face with science deniers and their victims-including a Flat Earth convention in Denver, coal miners in rural Pennsylvania, and fishermen in the Maldives-and what he learned from the experience"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236672X
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The art of abduction
"A defense of the rationality of adductive inference from the criticisms of Bayesian theorists"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262369923
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Reason and less :pursuing food, sex, and politics
"New theoretical model of human reasoning proposed by a leading researcher in the cognitive neurosciences. Explains why people are never fully rational in their decision-making"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262369702
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Qualitative representations :how people reason and learn about the continuous…
An argument that qualitative representations -- symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into meaningful units -- are central to human cognition. In this book, Kenneth Forbus proposes that qualitative representations hold the key to one of the deepest mysteries of cognitive science: how we reason and learn about the continuous phenomena surrounding us. Forbus argues that qualita…
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- 9780262349802
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages)
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In praise of reason
A spirited defense of the relevance of reason for an era of popular skepticism over such matters as climate change, vaccines, and evolution.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026230113X
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- 1 online resource (xii, 166 pages)
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Rationality in action
"A Bradford book."The study of rationality and practical reason, or rationality in action, has been central to Western intellectual culture. In this invigorating book, John Searle lays out six claims of what he calls the Classical Model of rationality and shows why they are false. He then presents an alternative theory of the role of rationality in thought and action.A central point of Searle's…
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- 9780262283342
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages).
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The rational imagination :how people create alternatives to reality
"A Bradford book.""The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. This accessible and original monograph explores a central aspect of the imagination, the creation of counterfactual alternatives to reality, and claims that imaginative thoughts are guided by the same principles that underlie rational thoughts. Research has shown that rational thought is more imagin…
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- 9780262269629
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) :illustrations
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Qualitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty
In this book Simon Parsons describes qualitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty, "uncertainty" being a catch-all term for various types of imperfect information. The advantage of qualitative methods is that they do not require precise numerical information. Instead, they work with abstractions such as interval values and information about how values change. The author does not invent c…
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- 9780262256773
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 506 pages) :illustrations.
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Reliable reasoning :induction and statistical learning theory
"A Bradford book."The implications for philosophy and cognitive science of developments in statistical learning theory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274975
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- 1 online resource (x, 108 pages) :illustrations.
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