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Series:   Elements in Philosophy of Mind

Human Reasoning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2024

David E Over  and
Jonathan St B T Evans
David E Over
Affiliation:
University of Durham
Jonathan St B T Evans
Affiliation:
University of Plymouth

Summary

This Element is on new developments in the psychology of reasoning that raise or address philosophical questions. In traditional studies in the psychology of reasoning, the focus was on inference from arbitrary assumptions and not at all from beliefs, and classical binary logic was presupposed as the only standard for human reasoning. But recently a new Bayesian paradigm has emerged in the discipline. This views ordinary human reasoning as mostly inferring probabilistic conclusions from degrees of beliefs, or from hypothetical premises relevant to a purpose at hand, and as often about revising or updating degrees of belief. This Element also covers new formulations of dual-process theories of the mind, stating that there are two types of mental processing, one rapid and intuitive and shared with other animals, and the other slow and reflective and more characteristic of human beings. The final topic covered is the new developments and rationality.
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new paradigmdual processesBayesian reasoningprobability judgementhuman rationality.
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Series: Elements in Philosophy of Mind
Online ISBN: 9781009495349
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