ABSTRACT

The Routledge International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning is an authoritative reference work providing a balanced overview of current scholarship spanning the full breadth of the rapidly developing and expanding field of thinking and reasoning. It contains 35 chapters written by leading international researchers, covering foundational issues as well as state-of-the-art developments in thinking and reasoning research.

Topics covered range across all sub-areas of thinking and reasoning, including deduction, induction, abduction, judgment, decision making, argumentation, problem solving, expertise, creativity and rationality. The contributors engage with cutting-edge debates such as the status of dual-process theories of thinking, the role of unconscious, intuitive, emotional and metacognitive processes in thinking, and the importance of probabilistic conceptualisations of thinking and reasoning. Authors also examine the importance of neuroscientific findings in informing theoretical developments, and explore the situated nature of thinking and reasoning across a range of real-world contexts such as mathematics, medicine and science.

The Handbook provides a clear sense of the way in which contemporary ideas are challenging traditional viewpoints as "new paradigm of the psychology of reasoning" emerges. This paradigm-shifting research is paving the way toward a richer and more inclusive understanding of thinking and reasoning, where important new questions drive a forward-looking research agenda. It is essential reading for both established researchers in the field of thinking and reasoning as well as advanced students wishing to learn more about both the historical foundations and latest developments in this rapidly growing field.

chapter 1|15 pages

Meta-Reasoning

Title
Shedding metacognitive light on reasoning research

chapter 2|21 pages

Belief bias and reasoning

Title

chapter 3|20 pages

Intuitive thinking

Title

chapter 5|17 pages

Counterfactual reasoning and imagination

Title

chapter 6|21 pages

Fallacies of argumentation

Title

chapter 7|21 pages

Medical decision making

Title

chapter 8|21 pages

The new paradigm in psychology of reasoning

Title

chapter 9|16 pages

Dual-process theories

Title

chapter 11|18 pages

Analogical reasoning

Title

chapter 13|30 pages

Inductive and deductive reasoning

Title
Integrating insights from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience

chapter 14|20 pages

Scientific thinking

Title

chapter 16|15 pages

Expert decision making

Title
A fuzzy-trace theory perspective

chapter 20|17 pages

Abductive reasoning and explanation

Title

chapter 21|18 pages

The development of logical reasoning

Title

chapter 22|14 pages

Reasoning and argumentation

Title

chapter 23|19 pages

Probabilities and Bayesian rationality

Title

chapter 25|21 pages

Judgement heuristics

Title

chapter 26|15 pages

Creative thinking

Title

chapter 27|15 pages

Naturalistic decision making

Title

chapter 30|17 pages

The development of rational thinking

Title
Insights from the heuristics and biases literature and dual process models

chapter 31|16 pages

The sense of coherence

Title
How intuition guides reasoning and thinking

chapter 32|15 pages

Reasoning and moral judgment

Title
A common experimental toolbox

chapter 34|17 pages

Problem solving

Title

chapter 35|15 pages

Thinking and reasoning across cultures

Title