Inductive reasoning
Subtitle: experimental, developmental, and computational approaches
By: edited by Aidan Feeney, Evan Heit
Contributors: Feeney, Aidan, 1971-; Heit, Evan, 1965-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780521856485; 9780521672443
Subjects: Reasoning (Psychology); Induction (Logic)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Preface / Aidan Feeney and Evan Heit; title: What is induction and why study it? / Evan Heit; title: The development of inductive reasoning / Brett K. Hayes; title: Interpreting asymmetries of projection in children's inductive reasoning / Douglas l. Medin and Sandra Waxman; title: Property generalization as causal reasoning / Bob Rehder; title: Availability in category-based induction / Patrick Shafto, John D. Coley and Anna Vitkin; title: From similarity to chance sergey blok / Daniel Osherson and Douglas L. Medin; title: Theory-based bayesian models of inductive reasoning / Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Charles Spence & Patrick Shafto; title: Use of single or multiple categories in category-based induction / Gregory L. Murphy and Brian H. Ross; title: Abductive inference : from philosophical analysis to neural mechanisms / Paul Thagard; title: Mathematical induction and induction in mathematics / Lance J. Rips and Jennifer Asmuth; title: Induction, deduction and argument strength in human reasoning and argumentation / Mike Oaksford and Ulrike Hahn; title: Individual differences, dual processes, and induction / Aidan Feeney; title: Taxonomising induction / Steven Sloman