Human and Machine Thinking

by Philip N. Johnson-Laird

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This book aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries out three sorts of thinking -- deduction, induction, and creation -- to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore computational models of these sorts of thinking. Written for students of the mind -- psychologists, computer scientists, philosophers, linguists, and other cognitive scientists -- it also provides general readers with a self-contained account of human and machine thinking. The author presents his show more point of view, rather than a review, as simply as possible so that no technical background is required. show less

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Philip Johnson-Laird
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Human and Machine Thinking

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Nonfiction, Technology
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153.4 — Philosophy & psychology Psychology Conscious mental processes and intelligence Thought, thinking, reasoning, intuition, value, judgment
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BF444 .J64 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Psychology Psychology Consciousness. Cognition
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