Description
David E. Over is a leading cognitive scientist and, with his firm grounding in philosophical logic, he also exerts a powerful influence on the psychology of reasoning. He is responsible for not only a large body of empirical work and accompanying theory, but for advancing a major shift in thinking about reasoning, commonly known as the ‘new paradigm’ in the psychology of human reasoning.
Over’s signature mix of philosophical logic and experimental psychology has inspired generations of researchers, psychologists, and philosophers alike over more than a quarter of a century. The chapters in this volume, written by a leading group of contributors including a number who helped shape the psychology of reasoning as we know it today, each take their starting point from the key themes of Over’s ground-breaking work. The essays in this collection explore a wide range of central topics—such as rationality, bias, dual processes, and dual systems—as well as contemporary psychological and philosophical theories of conditionals. It concludes with an engaging new chapter, authored by David E. Over himself, which details and analyses the new paradigm psychology of reasoning.
This book is therefore important reading for scholars, researchers, and advanced students in psychology, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences, including those who are not familiar with Over’s thought already.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The contribution of David Over: An intellectual biography by Ken Manktelow & Jonathan Evans
Chapter 2: Satisficing, meta-reasoning, and the rationality of further deliberation by Rakefet Ackerman, Igor Douven, Shira Elqayam, & Kinneret Teodorescu
Chapter 3: Deduction from uncertain premises? by Nicole Cruz
Chapter 4: Conditionals, truth conditions and indeterminacy by Dorothy Edgington
Chapter 5: The suppositional conditional is not (just) the probability conditional by Jonathan Evans
Chapter 6: Probabilistic entailment and iterated conditionals by Angelo Gilio, Niki Pfeifer & Giuseppe Sanfilippo
Chapter 7: Two Systems for Thinking with a Community: Outsourcing versus Collaboration by Babak Hemmatian & Steven Sloman
Chapter 8: Integrating causal Bayes nets and inferentialism in conditional inference by Mike Oaksford & Nick Chater
Chapter 9: Objecting to uncertain conditional sentences: A cross-linguistic study by Guy Politzer, Jean Baratgin, Ikuko Hattori, & Masasi Hattori
Chapter 10: Children’s comprehension of conditional requests by Guy Politzer, Frank Jamet, & Jean Baratgin
Chapter 11: Delusional rationality by Stephanie Rhodes, Niall Galbraith, & Ken Manktelow
Chapter 12: Relevance and conditionals: A synopsis of open pragmatic and semantic issues by Niels Skovgaard Olsen
Chapter 13: Correlation detection with and without the theory of conditionals: A model update of Hattori & Oaksford (2007) by Tatsuji Takahashi
Chapter 14: Working memory, autonomy, and dual process theories: A roadmap by Valerie Thompson & Ian Newman
Chapter 15: The development of the new paradigm in the psychology of reasoning by David Over
