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Holyoak is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), known for his research on analogy and reasoning.
Known for: The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning
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The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning
This comprehensive handbook, edited by Keith J. Holyoak and Robert G. Morrison, brings together leading scholars in cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to explore the fundamental processes of human thought. It covers key topics such as reasoning, judgment, decision making, problem solving, and conceptual understanding, providing an authoritative overview of the field of thinking and reasoning.
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From Philosophy to Psychology: The Historical Foundations of Reasoning Research
The study of reasoning has its origins not in laboratories but in philosophy. Our intellectual ancestors — from Aristotle to Descartes and Kant — sought to understand what makes human thought distinct, and how it could approach truth. These classical questions provided the metaphysical and logical f...
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Cognitive Architectures and Mental Models: How the Mind Represents Reasoning
Reasoning occurs through architecture — the organized structure of memory, attention, and representation that supports thought. In this volume, we explore these architectures through multiple lenses. The symbolic tradition treats reasoning as the manipulation of propositions within a rule-governed s...
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About Keith J. Holyoak
Holyoak is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), known for his research on analogy and reasoning.
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