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Introduction of the session by Henry Markovits, Université du Québec à Montréal
Dual-process theories of reasoning gained widespread interest following Kahneman’s (2011) popularisation of the distinction between “thinking fast” and “thinking slow”. Arguably the most advanced exposition of such dual-process theorising remains Evans and Stanovich’s (2013a, 2013b) account. This draws a separation between Type 1 processes, which are defined as being autonomous and undemanding of working-memory resources, and Type 2 processes, which are defined ...
The two-headed, dual process view of human thinking has been very influential in the cognitive sciences. The core idea that thinking can be conceived as an interplay between a fast-intuitive and slower-deliberate process has inspired a wide range of psychologists, philosophers, and economists. However, despite its popularity, the dual process framework faces multiple challenges. In this course, I will discuss how recent studies showing that brief training interv...
Probabilistic theories, dilemma inferences, and decision makingPsychological experiments have found much evidence that people generally judge the probability of a natural language if A then C, P(if A then C), to be the conditional probability of C given A, P(C|A). These findings support suppositional analyses of the conditional and the new Bayesian paradigm in the psychology of reasoning. In the ...
Reasoning and ImaginationIn this lecture I consider the central role of the imagination in cognition, illustrated by examples from different domains of thinking. First I discuss experimental evidence on the impact of imagination on moral decision making, and I outline itssimplications for understanding other people’s perspectives. Next I consider evidence on the role of imagination in causal reasoning for how people construct explanations, and I outline its ...
