Thinking and Reasoning: A Very Short Introduction

Thinking and Reasoning: A Very Short Introduction

Jonathan St. B.T. Evans

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Our extraordinary capacity to reason and solve problems sets us aside from other animals, but our evolved thinking processes also leave us susceptible to bias and error. The study of thinking and reasoning goes back to Aristotle, and was one of the first topics to be studied when psychology separated from philosophy.
In thisVery Short IntroductionJonathan Evans explores cognitive psychological approaches to understanding the nature of thinking and reasoning, problem solving, and decision making. He shows how our problem solving capabilities are hugely dependent on also having the imagination to ask the right questions, and the ability to see things from a completely new perspective. Beginning by considering the approaches of the behaviorists and the Gestalt psychologists, he moves on to modern explorations of thinking, including hypothetical thinking, conditionals, deduction, rationality, and intuition. Covering the role of past learning, IQ, and cognitive biases, Evans also discusses the idea that there may be two different ways of thinking, arising from our evolutionary history.
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Categories:
Computers – Algorithms and Data Structures

Year:
2017

Edition:
Paperback

Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA

Language:
english

Pages:
144 / 115

ISBN 10:
0198787251

ISBN 13:
9780198787259

Series:
1

File:
PDF, 1.17 MB