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10The effect of thematic content on cognitive strategies in the four-card selection taskBulletin of the Psychonomic Society 19 (2): 87-90. 1982.
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Serial and parallel processing in scientific discoveryMinnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 15 77-88. 1992.
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50Discovering discovery: How faraday found the first metallic colloidPerspectives on Science 14 (1): 97-121. 2006.: In 1856, Michael Faraday (1791–1867) conducted nearly a year's worth of research on the optical properties of gold, in the course of which he discovered the first metallic colloids. Following our own discovery of hundreds of the specimens prepared by Faraday for this research, the present paper describes the cognitive role of these "epistemic artifacts" in the dynamics of Faraday's research practices. Analysis of the specimens, Faraday's Diary records, and replications of selected procedures (…Read more
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27The influence of feedback and diagnostic data on pseudodiagnosticityBulletin of the Psychonomic Society 18 (4): 191-194. 1981.
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Two Reviews of B. F. Skinner's "The Shaping of a Behaviorist" No. 1 (review)Behavior and Philosophy 9 (1): 95. 1981.
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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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Bowling Green State UniversityRegular Faculty
Bowling Green, Ohio, United States of America
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Physical Science |