This interdisciplinary work is a collection of major essays on reasoning: deductive, inductive, abductive, belief revision, defeasible (non-monotonic), cross cultural, conversational, and argumentative. They are each oriented toward contemporary empirical studies. The book focuses on foundational issues, including paradoxes, fallacies, and debates about the nature of rationality, the traditional modes of reasoning, as well as counterfactual and causal reasoning. It also includes chapters on the interface between reasoning and other forms of thought. In general, this last set of essays represents growth points in reasoning research, drawing connections to pragmatics, cross-cultural studies, emotion and evolution.
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Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Jonathan E. Adler is Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, City University of New York. His D.Phil. in philosophy is from Oxford University. His main areas of research are epistemology, philosophy of psychology, informal logic, ethics, and philosophy of education. In 2002, he published Belief's Own Ethics.
Northwestern University, Illinois
Lance Rips received his Ph.D. from the Psychology Department at Stanford University in 1974 and taught at the University of Chicago from 1974 to 1993. Since 1993, Rips has been a professor of psychology at Northwestern University. He is on the editorial board of Cognition, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Informal Logic.
Part I. Foundations of Reasoning: 1. Some philosophical viewpoints; 2. Fallacies and rationality; Part II. Modes of Reasoning: 3. Deductive reasoning; 4. Induction; 5. Dual and integrative approaches; 6. Abduction and belief revision; 7. Causal and counterfactual reasoning; 8. Argumentation; Part III. Interactions of Reasoning in Human Thought: 9. Reasoning and pragmatics, 10. Domain-specific, goal based, and evolutionary approaches; 11. Reasoning across cultures; 12. Biology, emotions, and reasoning.
