Bücher der Reihe Oxford Cognitive Science Series

'If' is one of the most important and interesting words in the English language. This book presents a theoretical approach to understanding this hypothetical thought. It draws on studies from the psychology of judgement and decision-making, as well as philosophical logic. It is for both psychologists and philosophers interested in human reasoning.

John Campbell investigates how consciousness of the world explains our ability to think about the world. He illuminates classical problems about thought, reference and experience by looking at the underlying psychological mechanisms on which conscious attention depends.

In an age of information glut, knowledge can be hard to come by. Full citizenship of the world requires that we learn to reason and communicate. So how do we do it? This book shares new insights into how people process information, and how we use that information to reason, make decisions, and develop theories about the world in which we live.

The everyday capacity to understand the mind, or 'mindreading', plays an enormous role in our ordinary lives. Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich provide a detailed and integrated account of the intricate web of mental components underlying this fascinating and multifarious skill.

'Ways of Seeing' is a unique collaboration between an eminent philosopher and a world famous neuroscientist. It focuses on one of the most basic human functions - vision. What does it mean to 'see'. It brings together electrophysiological studies, neuropsychology, psychophysics, cognitive psychology, and philosophy of mind.

Presents a theory of the basic constituents of thought. This accessible study suggests that the heart of a cognitive science is its theory of concepts, and that cognitive scientists have gone badly wrong in many areas because their assumptions about concepts have been seriously mistaken.

Stalnaker develops a philosophical picture of the nature of speech and thought and the relations between them. These collected essays offer a summation of Stalnaker's important and influential work in this area. His new introduction to the volume gives an overview of this work and offers a convenient way in for those who are new to it.

Suggesting that the Western conception of the mind as a logical system is flawed, this work re-appraises the conventional wisdom in the psychology of reasoning. It argues that cognition should be understood in terms of probability theory, the calculus of uncertain reasoning, rather than in terms of logic, the calculus of certain reasoning.