Logic and Uncertainty in the Human Mind

Shira Elqayam is Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science at De Montfort University. Her research interests are in reasoning and rationality, with emphasis on normative thinking and rationality in context. Her work is interdisciplinary with many insights inspired by language and philosophy. Igor Douven is a philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is currently Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (INSHS). His main research interests are in concepts, conditionals, and rationality. Jonathan St. B. T. Evans is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Plymouth. He is best known for his work on conditionals and dual process theories of reasoning. He has conducted many studies of thinking, reasoning, and decision making since the 1970s, publishing numerous journal articles and several books on these topics. Nicole Cruz is a cognitive scientist at the University of New South Wales. In 2018, she received her PhD in Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London in conjunction with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EPHE) in Paris. Her main areas of research are reasoning and decision making under uncertainty, using tools from philosophical logic, experimental psychology, and computational modelling.

• Chapter 1: The contribution of David Over: An intellectual biography by Ken Manktelow & Jonathan Evans Chapter 2: Satisficing, meta-reasoning, and the rationality of further deliberation by Rakefet Ackerman, Igor Douven, Shira Elqayam, & Kinneret TeodorescuChapter 3: Deduction from uncertain premises? by Nicole CruzChapter 4: Conditionals, truth conditions and indeterminacy by Dorothy Edgington Chapter 5: The suppositional conditional is not (just) the probability conditional by Jonathan EvansChapter 6: Probabilistic entailment and iterated conditionals by Angelo Gilio, Niki Pfeifer & Giuseppe Sanfilippo Chapter 7: Two Systems for Thinking with a Community: Outsourcing versus Collaboration by Babak Hemmatian & Steven Sloman Chapter 8: Integrating causal Bayes nets and inferentialism in conditional inference by Mike Oaksford & Nick Chater Chapter 9: Objecting to uncertain conditional sentences: A cross-linguistic study by Guy Politzer, Jean Baratgin, Ikuko Hattori, & Masasi Hattori Chapter 10: Children’s comprehension of conditional requests by Guy Politzer, Frank Jamet, & Jean Baratgin Chapter 11: Delusional rationality by Stephanie Rhodes, Niall Galbraith, & Ken Manktelow Chapter 12: Relevance and conditionals: A synopsis of open pragmatic and semantic issues by Niels Skovgaard Olsen Chapter 13: Correlation detection with and without the theory of conditionals: A model update of Hattori & Oaksford (2007) by Tatsuji Takahashi Chapter 14: Working memory, autonomy, and dual process theories: A roadmap by Valerie Thompson & Ian NewmanChapter 15: The development of the new paradigm in the psychology of reasoning by David Over

David Over is renowned for his fruitful application of his skills in logic to questions about the psychology of reasoning and the meaning of conditionals. This book gives well-deserved recognition to his achievements.Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford, UKYou hold in your hands a book to honour Professor David Over. His extraordinary career — from philosopher to cognitive psychologist — reflects his passion to understand how humans reason. As its varied and striking contents make clear, the honour is more than merited.P.N. Johnson-Laird, Princeton University, USAThis is an erudite volume in honour of an erudite and generous scholar. Philosophically informed psychology was pioneered by David Over, and the contributors collected here provide a fitting tribute by extending his legacy in the multiple problem areas where he made major contributions.Keith E. Stanovich, University of Toronto, Canada