Seeing Reason
Published on 1. November 2002
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-19-850773-4 (ISBN)
Description
In an age of information, knowledge can be hard to come by - education must equip us to transform information for our own individual requirements. Full citizenship of the world requires that we learn to reason and communicate, but how do we do it? This book shares insights into how people process information, and how we use that information to reason, make decisions, and develop theories about the world in which we live.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
ISBN-13
978-0-19-850773-4 (9780198507734)
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Content
1: Introduction. 2: Language, diagram and system. 3: Hyperproof: industrial strength logic teaching. 4: Euler and the syllogism: back to the age of reason. 5: Why do we have to learn logic? A paradox resolved. 6: Interpretation, reasoning, and communication. 7: Cards and dice: assessing evidence and understanding experimenters. 8: The proof of a power station is in the...diagrams and equations for practitioners. 9: Involvement and detachment in learning to communicate. 10: Bloor, Lakatos and the sociology of diagrams. 11: Conclusions for practice. 12: Conclusions for theory