Research Catalog

Title

• Seeing reason : image and language in learning to think / Keith Stenning.

Author

Stenning, Keith

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Description

viii, 296 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

In an age of information, knowledge can be hard to come by - education must equip us to transform information for our own requirements. This book investigates how people process information, and how we use this to reason, make decisions, and develop theories about the world.

Series Statement

• Oxford cognitive science series

Uniform Title

• Oxford cognitive science series.
• University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Cognitive Science > methods
• Human information processing
• Learning
• Logic
• Models, Psychological
• Reasoning
• Thinking
• Thought and thinking
• Visual learning

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-286) and indexes.

Contents

Swallowing squiggles--the internalization of formalisms -- Representation systems -- Systematicity -- Significance and how it is assigned -- Modality and the complexity of reasoning -- Expressiveness and complexity through examples -- Cognitive consequences of semantics -- In summary -- Hyperproof: industrial strength logic teaching -- The world of blocks -- What impact does introducing diagrams have on learning? -- So, what happened? -- But why are these the results? -- But how general are these differences? -- The diversity of intelligence and the status of g -- Back to the Age of Reason -- Syllogisms and ways of solving them -- Psychological theories of syllogism solution -- Teaching the syllogism graphically or sententially -- Students' models of communication -- Professor Grice's logic tutorial -- The paradox of logic learning -- A sketch of Grice's theory -- Taking Grice into the laboratory -- And how do they reason about syllogisms? -- A rational reconstruction of kinds of student -- Revisiting modalities -- Form and content: three illustrations -- Losing our shirts at cards -- Analogical reasoning: content + content = form -- Word meaning and logical semantics--abstract psychology or abstract sociology? -- Individual, community, and system: human implementation of representations -- Applying systems to behaviour--please mind the gap! -- Implementation: logic as nature or logic as technology -- System turned inwards -- The implementation of systems in affective structure.

ISBN

• 0198507739 (alk. paper)
• 0198507747 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002512709

OCLC

60576430

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Harvard Library