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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Details

Series Statement

Oxford cognitive science series

Uniform Title

• University press scholarship online.
• Oxford cognitive science series

Subject

• Thought and thinking
• Visual learning
• Reasoning
• Human information processing

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
• SCSB-12290871

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library