Title: Cognition and conditionals : probability and logic in human thinking /
Authors: Oaksford, M.; Chater, Nick
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Linguistik.; Kognition.; Logik.; Denkstil.; Thought and thinking; Logic; Grammar, Comparative and general Conditionals; Thinking; Cognition; Linguistics; Logic
Abstract: "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 occurs in all human languages and allows people to express their knowledge of the causal or law-like structure of the world and of others' behaviour, e.g., if you turn the key the car starts, if John walks the dog he stops for a pint of beer; to make promises, e.g., if you cook tonight, I'll wash up all week; to regulate behaviour, e.g., if you are drinking beer, you must be over 18 years of age; to suggest what would have happened had things been different, e.g., if the match had been dry it would have lit, among many other possible uses. The way in which the conditional is modelled also determines the core of most logical systems. Unsurprisingly, it is also the most researched expression in the psychology of human reasoning.^
Contents: Cognition and conditionals : an introduction / Mike Oaksford and Nick Chater -- Working memory : function, representation, and process. Logic. The mental logic theory of conditional propositions / David O'Brien and Andrea Manfrinati ; Conditionals and possibilities / Ruth M.J. Byrne and Philip N. Johnson-Laird ; Logic and/in psychology : the paradoxes of material implication and psychologism in the cognitive science of human reasoning / Walter Schroyens ; The logical response to a noisy world / Keith Stenning and Michiel van Lambalgen -- Probability. Conditionals and probability / Vittorio Girotto and Phil Johnson-Laird ; Causal discounting and conditional reasoning in children / Nilufa Ali [and others] ; Conditionals and non-constructive reasoning / David E. Over, Jonathan St. B.T. Evans, and Shira Elqayam ; The conditional in mental probability logic / Niki Pfeifer and Gernot Kleiter --^