Class on Reasoning

Luca Lorenzo Bonatti of the cognitive science group at the CNRS/Ecole Pratique in Paris is giving an intsensive seminar as part of our Cognitive Doctoral program. TOPIC: New Models of Human Reasoning Time: from 11th to 23rd of September. Daily seminars at an hour to be specified later. Luca will be `stationed` in Izabella street. Details of the work will be specified later. This preliminary anouncement is to let us know two things: - who would like to ettend. - what our would be preferable. Please notify both luca and pleh at the email adresses below. Please post this note. For cognitive psychology majors the class is a must. Tentative listing: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF REASONING 1. Introduction. 2. Options for a theory of reasoning: structural and non structural approaches. (Core references: Rips 1990; McGinn 1989; Rumelhart 1989;Bechtel & Abrahansen 1992, ch. on reasoning) 3. Theories of propositional reasoning. A. Mental logic: the work of Rips and Braine (Core references: Rips 1994, ch. 4 and 5; Marcus (1982) Braine. Reiser & Rumain 1984; Braine & O'Brien forthcoming; Braine,O'Brien, Noveck, Samuels, Fish,& Yang, forthcoming; Brooke Lea et al. 1990) 4. Theories of propositional reasoning. B. Mental models (Core references: Johnson-Laird, Byrne & Schaeken (1991, chs. 3, 4; 1992; 1994);Bauer & Johnson-Laird 1993) 5. Theories of propositional reasoning. C. A connectionist model: SHRUTI. Conclusion on propositional reasoning: pure and impure representations. (Core references: Shastri & Ajjanagadde 1994, and related discussion). 6. Figural effects and syllogistic reasoning (Core references: Johnson-Laird & Bara 1984; Ford 1995; Rips 1994; Newstead 1993) 7. The Belief Bias effect and the suppression of valid inferences effect (Core references: Oakill & Johnson-Laird 1985; Newstead, Pollard, Evans, & Allen,1992; Evans, Barston & Pollard 1983; Newstead & Evans 1992; Byrne 1989; 1991) 8. Reasoning and the selection task. (Core references: Johnson-Laird & Legrenzi 1972; Wason 1983; Griggs & Newstead 1983; Griggs 1983; Cheng & Holyoak 1985; Cosmides 1989; Gigerenzer & Hug 1992; Johnson-Laird and Byrne 1991, ch. 4; Sperber, Cara & Girotto, Forthcoming; Rips 1994, ch. 4 ) 9. Between deductive reasoning and task-specific reasoning: the case of spatial reasoning. (Core references: Franklin & Tversky 1990; Taylor & Tversky 1992; Bryant, Tversky& Lanca, MS ) 10. Developmental and neurological evidence for reasoning: the state of the art (Core references: Bowerman 1986; Braine & Rumain 1983; neurological literature) pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu luca(a)msh-paris.fr ==================== Luca L. Bonatti LSCP-MSH 54, Bd. Raspail 75006 Paris France off. #: (33) (1) 4954-2068 ho. #: (33) (1) 4263-0149 ====================