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1. The Shape of Reason

   Essays in Honour of Paolo Legrenzi

   Edited by Vittorio Girotto, Philip N. Johnson-Laird

   Series: Psychology Press Festschrift Series

   Over the past three decades, there has been a rapid development of research on human thinking and reasoning. This volume provides a comprehensive review of this topic by looking at the important contributions Paolo Legrenzi has made to the field, by bridging the gap from Gestalt ideas to modern...

   Published February 23rd 2005 by Psychology Press
2. Human and Machine Thinking

   By Philip N. Johnson-Laird

   Series: Distinguished Lecture Series

   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,...

   Published September 30th 1992 by Psychology Press