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How We Reason (Hardcover)
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How We Reason (Hardcover)
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Good reasoning can lead to success; bad reasoning can lead to
catastrophe. Yet, it's not obvious how we reason, and why we make
mistakes - so much of our mental life goes on outside our
awareness. In recent years huge strides have been made into
developing a scientific understanding of reasoning. This new book
by one of the pioneers of the field, Philip Johnson-Laird, looks at
the mental processes that underlie our reasoning. It provides the
most accessible account yet of the science of reasoning. We can all
reason from our childhood onwards - but how? 'How we reason'
outlines a bold approach to understanding reasoning. According to
this approach, we don't rely on the laws of logic or probability -
we reason by thinking about what's possible, we reason by seeing
what is common to the possibilities. As the book shows, this
approach can answer many of the questions about how we reason, and
what causes mistakes in our reasoning that can lead to disasters
such as Chernobyl. It shows why our irrational fears may become
psychological illnesses, why terrorists develop 'crazy' ideologies,
and how we can act in order to improve our reasoning. The book ends
by looking at the role of reasoning in three extraordinary case
histories: the Wright brothers' use of analogies in inventing their
flyer, the cryptanalysts' deductions in breaking the German's
Enigma code in World War II, and Dr. John Snow's inductive
reasoning in discovering how cholera spread from one person to
another. Accessible, stimulating, and controversial, How we Reason
presents a bold new approach to understanding one of the most
intriguing facets of being human.
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