Conditional reasoning : the unruly syntactics, semantics, thematics, and pragmatics of "if" /
Raymond S. Nickerson.
- viii, 460 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-423) and index.
Getting started -- Conditionals -- Experimental approaches to the study of conditional reasoning -- Logic and conditional reasoning -- Syntactics, semantics and pragmatics in conditional reasoning -- Rule checking -- Counterfactual thinking -- Counterfactual thinking 2 -- Conditional reasoning as probabilistic reasoning -- The probability of the conditional and the conditional probability -- Individual differences -- Theoretical accounts of conditional reasoning -- More theoretical accounts -- Final comments.