Browsing by Author "Elqayam, Shira"
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Classical logic and logicism in human thought
Elqayam, Shira (Book chapter)This chapter explores the role of classical logic as a theory of human reasoning. I distinguish between classical logic as a normative, computational and algorithmic system, and review its role is theories of human reasoning ... -
Conditionals and inferential connections: A hypothetical inferential theory
Intuition suggests that for a conditional to be evaluated as true, there must be some kind of connection between its component clauses. In this paper, we formulate and test a new psychological theory to account for this ... -
Conditionals and Inferential Connections: Toward a New Semantics
In previous published research (“Conditionals and Inferential Connections: A Hypothetical Inferential Theory,” Cognitive Psychology, 2018), we investigated experimentally what role the presence and strength of an inferential ... -
Conditionals and non-constructive reasoning.
Over, D. E.; Evans, J. St. B. T.; Elqayam, Shira (Book chapter) -
Counterfactual conditionals and normative rules
Wilkinson, M. R.; Elqayam, Shira; Thompson, V. A.; Over, D. E. (Other)Counterfactual thinking is the consideration of how things could have turned out differently, usually taking the form of counterfactual conditionals. This experiment examined the psychological mechanisms that transform ... -
Deontic Introduction: A Theory of Inference from Is to Ought
Humans have a unique ability to generate novel norms. Faced with the knowledge that there are hungry children in Somalia, we easily and naturally infer that we ought to donate to famine relief charities. Although a contentious ... -
Emotion and Reasoning: A Metacognitive Perspective
Jeffries, A.; Elqayam, Shira; Scase, M. O. (Conference)The talk will draw on the Thompson’s (2011) theory of metacognition in reasoning, which aims to identify the mechanisms that trigger effortful (type 2) processing. We will discuss the metacognitive perspective in relation ... -
Grounded rationality: Descriptivism in epistemic context
Elqayam, Shira (Article)Normativism, the approach that judges human rationality by comparison against normative standards, has recently come under intensive criticism as unsuitable for psychological enquiry, and it has been suggested that it ... -
How and why we reason from is to ought
Evans, J. St. B. T.; Elqayam, Shira (Article)Originally identified by Hume, the validity of is-ought inference is much debated in the meta-ethics literature. Our work shows that inference from is to ought typically proceeds from contextualised, value-laden causal ...