
How We Reason
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- Part I: The World in Our Conscious Minds
- 2 Icons and Images
- 3 Models of Possibilities: From Conjuring Tricks to Disasters
- Part II: The World in Our Unconscious Minds
- 4 Mental Architecture and the Unconscious
- 5 Intuitions and Unconscious Reasoning
- 6 Emotions as Inferences
- 7 Reasoning in Psychological Illnesses
- Part III: How We Make Deductions
- 8 Only Connections
- 9 I'm my own Grandpa: Reasoning About Identities and Other Relations
- 10 Syllogisms and Reasoning about Properties
- 11 Isn't Everyone an Optimist? The Case of Complex Reasoning
- Part IV: How We Make Inductions
- 12 Modulation: A Step Towards Induction
- 13 Knowledge and Inductions
- 14 Sherlock Holmes's Method: Abduction
- 15 The Balance of Probabilities
- Part V: What Makes us Rational
- 16 Counterexamples
- 17 Truths, Lies, and the Higher Reasoning
- Part VI: How We Develop Our Ability to Reason
- 18 On Development
- 19 Strategies and Cultures
- 20 How We can Improve our Reasoning
- Part VII: Knowledge, Beliefs, and Problems
- 21 The Puzzles of If
- 22 Causes and Obligations
- 23 Beliefs, Heresies, and Changes in Mind
- 24 How we Solve Problems
- Part VIII: Expert Reasoning in Technology, Logic, and Science
- 25 Flying Bicycles: How the Wright Brothers Invented the Airplane
- 26 Unwrapping an Enigma
- 27 On the Mode of the Communication of Cholera
- 28 How we Reason
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- Notes on the Chapters
- Acknowledgements
- References
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