Author: William Rohlf
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: reasoning, economic, introduction
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2010-01-13
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0131368583
ISBN-13: 9780131368583
With a goal of encouraging students to become informed decision-makers, Introduction to Economic Reasoning, provides a non-technical, concise introduction to basic economic theories.
Author: Giulio D. Agostini
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: analysis, data, reasoning, bayesian
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-06
List price: $128.00
ISBN-10: 9812383565
ISBN-13: 9789812383563
A multi-level introduction to Bayesian reasoning (as opposed to "conventional statistics") and its applications to data analysis. The basic ideas of this approach to the quantification of uncertainty are presented using examples from research and everyday life. Applications covered include: parametric inference; combination of results; treatment of uncertainty due to systematic errors and background; comparison of hypotheses; unfolding of experimental distributions; upper/lower bounds in frontier-type measurements. Approximate methods for routine use are derived and are shown often to coincide
Author: Vinay Ambegaokar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: physics, uses, probability, luck, reasoning
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1996-07-13
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0521447372
ISBN-13: 9780521447379
This book introduces the reader to statistical reasoning and its use in physics. It differs from other treatments of physics for nonscientists in its wide-ranging use of quantitative methods, which assume only that the reader can add, subtract, multiply and divide with confidence. The author begins with a self-contained introduction to the everyday uses of probability, including the quantitative assessment of statistical information. The author develops the basic idea of mechanical motion, the molecular theory of gases, entropy as a measure of molecular agitation, limitations on the conversio
Authors:Jacqueline P. Leighton, Robert J. Sternberg PhD,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: reasoning, nature
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2003-11-03
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0521009286
ISBN-13: 9780521009287
Reasoning to the mind is like breathing to the lungs. We are constantly doing it, but rarely take notice. If it fails, however, we are paralyzed. Imagine being unable to infer conclusions from a conversation or being unable to reach a solution to an important life problem. This book focuses on how people draw conclusions from information and discusses the roles that the brain, our memory, and our knowledge play in drawing conclusions in everyday life.
Author: Simon Blackbur
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: reasoning, practical, theory, passions, ruling
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1999-01-14
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0198247850
ISBN-13: 9780198247852
Why do we behave as we do? Can we improve? Is our ethics at war with our passions, or is it an upshot of those passions? Distinguished philosopher Simon Blackburn seeks the answers to such questions in this brilliant exploration of the nature of moral emotions and the structures of human motivation. Ruling Passions reveals how ethics can maintain its authority even though it is rooted in the very emotions and motivations that it exists to control.
Author: Nicholas Rescher
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: philosophizing, methodology, study, reasoning, philosophical
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2001-10-17
List price: $55.95
ISBN-10: 0631230181
ISBN-13: 9780631230182
This book is a study in the methodology of philosophical inquiry. It expounds and defends the thesis that systematization is the proper instrument of philosophical inquiry and that the effective pursuit of philosophy’s mission calls for constructing a doctrinal system that answers our questions in a coherent and comprehensive manner.
Author: K.I. Manktelow
Publisher: Psychology Pre
Keywords: hove, england, psychology, cognitive, thinking, reasoning
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0863777090
ISBN-13: 9780863777097
(Psychology Press) Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK. Undergraduate textbook reviews psychology research in the major areas of reasoning and thinking: deduction, induction, hypothesis testing, decision making, and probability judgement. Includes everyday examples. Softcover, hardcover also available.
