The Psychology of Reasoning

First Published in 1999. This is Volume XVII of twenty-one of a series on Cognitive Psychology. Written in 1923, this book looks at the treatises on Logic and seeks to discover the nature of reasoning which the author argues is tied up with an instinctive tendency to resolve complex psychical phenomena into more elementary processes. Chapter 1 On The Mnemonic Origin and Nature of Affective Tendencies; Chapter 1 Attention: Part I: Affective Conflict and Unity of Consciousness; Chapter 3 Attention: Part II: Vividness and Connection; Chapter 4 What Is Reasoning?; Chapter 5 The Evolution Of Reasoning; Chapter 6 The Evolution Of Reasoning; Chapter 7 The Higher Forms of Reasoning; Chapter 8 The Higher Forms of Reasoning; Chapter 1 The Higher Forms Of Reasoning; Part 1 III: Mathematics and Mathematical Logic; Chapter 1 “Intentional” Reasoning; Part 1 I: Dialectic Reasoning; Chapter 1 “Intentional” Reasoning; Part II: Metaphysical Reasoning; Chapter 1 The Different Logical Types Of Mind; Chapter 13 The Pathology Of Reasoning; Part 1 : The Incoherence and Illogicality of Dreams; Chapter 14 The Pathology Of Reasoning; Part 2 : Coherent but Illogical Insanity due to Mono-affectivism; Chapter 15 The Pathology Of Reasoning; Part 3 : Incoherent Insanity due to Instability, Impotence, or Absence of the Affective Tendencies; Chapter 16 CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS REASONING; Conclusion Reasoning In Relation To Vital Finalism;