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73Rationality and the psychology of inferenceSynthese 57 (November): 129-138. 1983.Recent advances in the cognitive psychology of inference have been of great interest to philosophers of science. The present paper reviews one such area, namely studies based upon Wason's 4-card selection task. It is argued that interpretation of the results of the experiments is complex, because a variety of inference strategies may be used by subjects to select evidence needed to confirm or disconfirm a hypothesis. Empirical evidence suggests that which strategy is used depends in part on th…Read more
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18Lorenzo Magnani & Ping Li Philosophy and cognitive science: Western & Eastern studies: Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2012, x+287ppMind and Society 12 (2): 273-276. 2013.Based upon papers given at a 2011 conference at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, this book crosses many boundaries. Most obviously, it includes a balanced set of contributions by philosophers and cognitive scientists from a variety of countries: Nine of the authors are based in Europe, eight in Asia, and one in North America. The conference was the latest of three held in Guangzhou between 2004 and 2011; the editors are to be congratulated for their extensive and continuing efforts to…Read more
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9Occurrence and nonoccurrence of random sequences: Comment on Hahn and Warren (2009)Psychological Review 117 (2): 697-703. 2010.
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10Lorenzo Magnani & Ping Li (Eds.) Philosophy and cognitive science: Western & Eastern studies: Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2012, x+287pp (review)Mind and Society 12 (2): 273-276. 2013.Based upon papers given at a 2011 conference at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, this book crosses many boundaries. Most obviously, it includes a balanced set of contributions by philosophers and cognitive scientists from a variety of countries: Nine of the authors are based in Europe, eight in Asia, and one in North America. The conference was the latest of three held in Guangzhou between 2004 and 2011; the editors are to be congratulated for their extensive and continuing efforts to…Read more
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The Future of Cognitive Studies of Science and TechnologyIn M. Gorman, R. Tweney, D. Gooding & A. Kincannon (eds.), Scientific and Technological Thinking, Erlbaum. 2005.
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49Wegner's “illusion” anticipated: Jonathan Edwards on the willBehavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (5): 676-676. 2004.Wegner's The Illusion of Conscious Will (2002) ignores an important aspect of the history of the concept: the determinism of Jonathan Edwards (1754) and the later response to this determinism by William James and others. We argue that Edwards's formulation, and James's resolution of the resulting dilemma, are superior to Wegner's.
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45Mathematical Representations in Science: A Cognitive–Historical Case HistoryTopics in Cognitive Science 1 (4): 758-776. 2009.The important role of mathematical representations in scientific thinking has received little attention from cognitive scientists. This study argues that neglect of this issue is unwarranted, given existing cognitive theories and laws, together with promising results from the cognitive historical analysis of several important scientists. In particular, while the mathematical wizardry of James Clerk Maxwell differed dramatically from the experimental approaches favored by Michael Faraday, Maxwell…Read more
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Bowling Green State UniversityRegular Faculty
Bowling Green, Ohio, United States of America
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Physical Science |