People love moral statements they believe; hate those they disbelieve
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted June 15, 2019
Monica Bucciarelli and Phil Johnson-Laird have several new articles on deontic and moral reasoning. First, they published a paper and a reply to comments in the Italian legal journal, Materiali Per Una Storia Della Cultura Giuridica. The abstract...
Read MoreThinking is founded on models of possibilities: An interview with Johnson-Laird
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted June 1, 2019
Marco Ragni recently interviewed Phil Johnson-Laird for an article in KI – Künstliche Intelligenz. Here’s a small excerpt from the interview: MR: From your perspective—what are current limitations of AI approaches to explain human reasoning? PJL: When...
Read MoreInterview with Philip Johnson-Laird in The Reasoner
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted November 9, 2018
Hykel Hosni recently interviewed Phil Johnson-Laird in the latest issue of The Reasoner. Here’s a short excerpt: HH: How about probabilistic reasoning? PJL: The idea that probabilities enter into reasoning is quite popular at the moment: theorists want...
Read MoreThe truth of conditionals
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted September 11, 2018
Geoff Goodwin and Phil Johnson-Laird describe new work on resolving a long-standing controversy about “conditional” assertions. You can read the paper here. Here’s the abstract: Given a basic conditional of the form, If A then C, individuals usually...
Read More50 years of the selection task
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 18, 2018
Marco Ragni, Ilir Kola, and Phil Johnson-Laird have just published a meta-analysis of 50 years of research into the selection task, a paradigm invented to test how reasoners select evidence to test hypotheses. Download the paper here,...
Read MoreFactual and counterfactual conditionals
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted July 14, 2018
A new paper by Cristina Quelhas, Célia Rasga, and Phil Johnson-Laird describes the relation between factual conditionals and counterfactual conditionals.
Read MorePeople become more logical without feedback
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted June 19, 2018
Most theories of reasoning assume that human reasoning ability is stable over time, but few studies have investigated the matter. We analyzed a study in which 20 participants drew their own conclusions to the 64 sorts of...
Read MoreHuman reasoning violates all normal modal logics
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted June 13, 2018
Marco Ragni and Phil Johnson-Laird have a new paper in CogSci 2018 that shows how human reasoning violates all orthodox systems of modal logic. You can read the paper here.
Read MoreThe interpretation of disjunctions depends on the contents of its clauses
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted January 10, 2017
Christina Quelhas and Phil Johnson-Laird published a recent paper in QJEP on how disjunctive assertions are modulated by the contents of their clauses. You can read the paper here, and the abstract is below.
Read MoreObituary for Vittorio Girotto in T&R
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 21, 2016
Paulo Legrenzi and Phil Johnson-Laird wrote an obituary for their close friend and colleague, Vittorio Girotto. The obituary will be published in Thinking & Reasoning soon, but we have included a preprint here for those interested.
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