Reasoning

This interdisciplinary work is a collection of major essays on reasoning: deductive inductive abductive belief revision defeasible (non-monotonic) cross cultural conversational and argumentative. They are each oriented toward contemporary empirical studies. The book focuses on foundational issues including paradoxes fallacies and debates about the nature of rationality the traditional modes of reasoning as well as counterfactual and causal reasoning. It also includes chapters on the interface between reasoning and other forms of thought. In general this last set of essays represents growth points in reasoning research drawing connections to pragmatics cross-cultural studies emotion and evolution.