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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 August 2002
- ISBN 9780198507741
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 234x156x16 mm
- Weight 533 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous figures 0
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Short description:
In an age of information glut, knowledge can be hard to come by. Education must equip us to transform information for our own individual requirements. Full citizenship of the world requires that we learn to reason and communicate. So how do we do it? This book shares new insights into how people process information, and how we use that information to reason, make decisions, and develop theories about the world in which we live.
MoreLong description:
'A picture is worth a thousand words' Or is it? What difference does it make whether information is presented using illustrations or language?
'Seeing Reason' is an interdisciplinary study of a central topic in cognitive science: how does the mind respond to different kinds of representation of the same information, especially when learning, reasoning, and communicating. It uses philosophical, logical, linguistic, psychological, and educational methods to explore this topic, reporting theories, observations, and arguments developed during several years' research. Though the focus is on fundamental cognitive theories of human capacities, the issues are closely related to intensely practical issues about the teaching and learning of reasoning and communication skills. Along the way it examines why the human mind has so evolved, the relationship between private language and public thought, and integrates cognitive and social accounts of communication.
Written to be accessible to students and researchers within the fields of philosophy and psychology, this book shares new insights into how people process information, and how we use that information to reason, make decisions, and develop theories about the world in which we live.
In addressing the association between mental functioning and external representation, Seeing Reason should, I believe, be commended for its success not only in progressing a theoretical synthesis relating to the topic of reasoning and representation, but in simultaneously tackling head-on various complex issues relating to the learning of reasoning skills. It is rare to find contemporary analyses of human reasoning that attempt to cover both sides of the theory-practice divide, let alone that endeavour to build a bridge between them . . . Seeing Reason is erudite (with an appropriate smattering of wit) and is a good example of some of the best published work in contemporary cognitive science. It is the kind of book that should serve to inspire new researchers embarking on the study of deductive reasoning.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Language, diagram and system
Hyperproof: industrial strength logic teaching
Euler and the syllogism: back to the age of reason
Why do we have to learn logic? A paradox resolved
Interpretation, reasoning, and communication
Cards and dice: assessing evidence and understanding experimenters
The proof of a power station is in the...diagrams and equations for practitioners
Involvement and detachment in learning to communicate
Bloor, Lakatos and the sociology of diagrams
Conclusions for practice
Conclusions for theory
