内容简介
Withoutinductivereasoning,wecouldn'tgeneralizefromoneinstancetoanother,derivescientifichypotheses,orpredictthatthesunwillriseagaintomorrowmorning.Despitethewidespreadnatureofinductivereasoning,booksonthistopicarerare.Indeed,thisisthefirstbookonthepsychologyofinductivereasoningintwentyyears.Thechapterssurveyrecentadvancesinthestudyofinductivereasoningandaddressquestionsabouthowitdevelops,theroleofknowledgeininduction,howbesttomodelpeople'sreasoning,andhowinductionrelatestootherformsofthinking.Writtenbyexpertsinphilosophy,developmentalscience,cognitivepsychology,andcomputationalmodeling,thecontributionsherewillbeofinteresttoageneralcognitivescienceaudienceaswellastothosewithamorespecializedinterestinthestudyofthinking.
作者简介
AidanFeeneyisSeniorLecturerinPsychologyatDurhamUniversity.HereceivedhisB.A.inPsychologyfromTrinityCollege,Dublinin1992andcompletedhisPh.D.intheCentreforThinkingandLanguageattheUniversityofPlymouth.HewasappointedLecturerintheDepartmentofPsychologyatDurhamUniversityin1998wherehebecameSeniorLecturerin2005.DrFeeney'sresearchhasbeensupportedbyanumberofgrantsfromtheEconomicandSocialResearchCouncil(UK).Hehaspublishedapproximatelytwentyjournalarticles,bookchapters,andpapersonthepsychologyofhypothesistestingandreasoning.HehaspublishedarticlesinThinkingandReasoning,MemoryandCognition,PsychonomicBulletinandReview,BritishJournalofPsychology,QuarterlyJournalofExperimentalPsychology,andAppliedCognitivePsychology.EvanHeitiscurrentlyProfessorofPsychologyandCognitiveScience,andFoundingFaculty,attheUniversityofCalifornia,Merced.Previously,ProfessorHeitwasonthefacultyinthePsychologyDepartmentoftheUniversityofWarwick,UK.HehasundergraduatedegreesinComputerScienceandPsychologyfromtheUniversityofPennsylvaniaandaPh.D.fromStanfordUniversity.Healsocarriedoutpost-doctoralresearchattheUniversityofMichiganandNorthwesternUniversity.ProfessorHeithaspublishedmorethanfiftypapersonthepsychologyofreasoning,memory,andcategorization.HisresearchhasbeenfundedbytheNationalScienceFoundation,theNationalInstitutesofHealth,theEconomicandSocialResearchCouncil(UK),andtheBiotechnologyandBiologicalSciencesResearchCouncil(UK).HeiscurrentlyontheeditorialboardofMemoryandCognitionandtheJournalofExperimentalPsychology:Learning,Memory,andCognition,andisAssociateEditoroftheJournalofMemoryandLanguage.