informal logic and critical reasoning, emphasizing basic skills in analyzing lan-guage and reasoning, might cover the five chapters in Part 1 (Language and Reasoning), Chapters 6–8 (traditional …

As you can see from the brief survey, reasoning is part of every human's everyday life. Everyone makes basic inferences about the identity and location of objects, and about various different relationship …

We propose that reasoning models learn to emulate social, multi-agent-like dialogue between multiple perspectives—what we term a “society of thought”—to improve their reasoning, given the centrality …

Inductive logic is a very difficult and intricate subject, partly because the practitioners (experts) of this discipline are not in complete agreement concerning what constitutes correct inductive reasoning.

This volume brings together the contribu-tions of many of the leading researchers in thinking and reasoning to create the most comprehensive overview of research on thinking and reasoning that …

We claim, further, that this aim is to get fitting attitudes. We start by considering recent accounts of reasoning due to Ralph Wedgwood and John Broome, and argue that, while these accounts contain …

In the next four sections we will describe each of these four types of reasoning: deductive, inductive, abductive and by analogy, in more detail. In each section we will include examples from students’ …