Byrne gave keynote on counterfactuals at IJCAI-19’s Workshop on Explainable AI
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 23, 2019
Ruth Byrne gave a keynote talk, titled “Constraints on Counterfactuals”, at the Workshop on Explainable AI at this year’s International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019) in Macao.
Read MoreRagni’s course at the South-East Asian Summer School on Computational Logic in Ulaanbaatar
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 22, 2019
Marco Ragni gave a series of lectures at the 9th South-East Asian Summer School on Computational Logic in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on the topic of “Cognitive Computational Models of Human Thinking and Reasoning.” The abstract for his course...
Read MoreEyetracking results show how people comprehend counterfactual conditionals
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 20, 2019
Isabel Orenes and colleagues showed how people comprehend the dual nature of counterfactual conditionals, i.e., how process separate a fact from a counterfactual possibility. Their results were recently published in Frontiers of Psychology, and the abstract is here:...
Read MorePeople make systematic errors when reasoning about durations
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 1, 2019
Laura Kelly presented new research on reasoning about durations at the 2019 London Reasoning Workshop. The abstract of her talk is here: Few experiments have examined how people reason about durative relations, e.g., “during”. Such relations pose...
Read MoreA stochastic algorithm for causal reasoning
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted July 22, 2019
Gordon Briggs and Sunny Khemlani published a new computational model of causal reasoning in the International Conference of Cognitive Modeling, which they used to model data from a replication and extension of Wolff and Barbey (2015). Here’s...
Read MoreMeta-analysis on conditional reasoning
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted July 22, 2019
Marco Ragni, Hannah Dames, and Phil Johnson-Laird recently published a new meta-analysis on conditional reasoning at the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Here’s the abstract: Conditional premises are assertions with “if”, e.g., If I have measles, then...
Read MoreNew paper in T&R about the abstract representation of conditionals
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted July 22, 2019
Henry Markovits, Pier-Luc de Chantal, and Janie Brisson of UQAM recently published a paper in Thinking & Reasoning about the abstract mental representation of basic conditionals. Their abstract is here: Studies examining the interpretation that is given...
Read MoreResearch on mental models featured at the London Reasoning Workshop
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in Events
- posted July 18, 2019
This year’s London Reasoning Workshop featured new research on mental models and reasoning. The speakers included: Phil Johnson-Laird and Marco Ragni: “You can do that! Possibilities, permissions, and prohibitions” Monica Bucciarelli and Phil Johnson-Laird: “People should interrupt...
Read MoreNew paper on why machines can’t reason yet
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted July 7, 2019
A major failure of current AI systems is that they can’t mimic common sense reasoning: most ML systems don’t reason, and all theorem provers draw trivial and silly deductions. We analyze why — and suggest a path...
Read MorePeople 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...
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