Describing Reasoning. A prominent theme in the book is that of reasoning as mediator. If we
wanted to personify reasoning, it would take on the character of a middleman or …

We are bombarded with information-press releases, television news, internet websites, and
office memos, just to name a few-on a daily basis. However, the important conclusions that …

Thinking about reasoning suffers from a failure of vision. Philosophers, social scientists, and
others who discuss and analyze reasoning have a particular activity in view: reasoning to …

What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make
progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or …

This book is an adaptation of a report entitled Notes about Reasoning, prepared under a
project on The Training of Higher Cognitive Learning and Thinking Skills that was …

Reasoning and decision making are high-level cognitive skills that have been under
intensive investigation by psychologists and philosophers, among others, for the last thirty …

Abstract The Aims of the Book 1. To improve your skill in analyzing and evaluating
arguments and presentations of the kind you find in everyday discourse (news media …

This book belongs to a venerable tradition that distinguishes us as rational animals, and
philosophy by its concern to understand, articulate, and explain the notion of reason that is …

To a first approximation, cognitive science agrees with everyday notions about reasoning:
According to both views, reasoning is a special sort of relation between beliefs–a relation …

I'd like to tell you a story. It is, in a sense, a small part of the history of philosophy. But if it's
history I'll be narrating, it's history at a level of generality and abstraction that makes its …