search for books and compare prices
Lance J. Rips has written 5 work(s)
Search for other authors with the same name
displaying 1 to 5 |
at end
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
Product Description: Lines of Thought addresses how we are able to think about abstract possibilities: How can we think about math, despite the immateriality of numbers, sets, and other mathematical entities? How are we able to think about what might have happened if history had taken a different turn? Questions like these turn up in nearly every part of cognitive science, and they are central to our human position of having only limited knowledge concerning what is or might be true...read more
Hardcover:
9780195183054 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 14, 2011, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: Lines of Thought addresses how we are able to think about abstract possibilities: How can we think about math, despite the immateriality of numbers, sets, and other mathematical entities?
Hardcover:
9780521848152 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 31, 2008), cover price $190.00
Paperback:
9780521612746 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 31, 2008), cover price $84.99
Product Description: In this provocative book, Lance Rips describes a unified theory of natural deductive reasoning and fashions a working model of deduction, with strong experimental support, that is capable of playing a central role in mental life.Rips argues that certain inference principles are so central to our notion of intelligence and rationality that they deserve serious psychological investigation to determine their role in individuals' beliefs and conjectures...read more
Hardcover:
9780262181532 | Bradford Books, March 8, 1994, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: In this provocative book, Lance Rips describes a unified theory of natural deductive reasoning and fashions a working model of deduction, with strong experimental support, that is capable of playing a central role in mental life.
Paperback:
9780262517218 | Bradford Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In this provocative book, Lance Rips describes a unified theory of natural deductive reasoning and fashions a working model of deduction, with strong experimental support, that is capable of playing a central role in mental life.
Drawing on classic and modern research from cognitive psychology, social psychology, and survey methodology, this book examines the psychological roots of survey data, how survey responses are formulated, and how seemingly unimportant features of the survey can affect the answers obtained. Topics include the comprehension of survey questions, the recall of relevant facts and beliefs, estimation and inferential processes people use to answer survey questions, the sources of the apparent instability of public opinion, the difficulties in getting responses into the required format, and distortions introduced into surveys by deliberate misreporting. (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780521572460 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 13, 2000, cover price $91.00 | About this edition: Drawing on classic and modern research from cognitive psychology, social psychology, and survey methodology, this book examines the psychological roots of survey data, how survey responses are formulated, and how seemingly unimportant features of the survey can affect the answers obtained.
Paperback:
9780521576291 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $54.99
Product Description: Much of current cognitive science is a debate between two views of thinking -- thinking as governed by mental rules and thinking as governed by similarity among ideas. Contributors to this volume explore these contrasting views in research on reasoning and concepts, and consider their merits from the perspectives of cognition, development, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Paperback:
9780262692144 | Bradford Books, September 20, 1998, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Much of current cognitive science is a debate between two views of thinking -- thinking as governed by mental rules and thinking as governed by similarity among ideas.
displaying 1 to 5 |
at end