The Thinking Mind : A Festschrift for Ken Manktelow

The Thinking Mind brings together some of the world’s leading researchers in this broad overview of thinking and reasoning. The book emphasises how cutting edge research can help us understand how we think in everyday life, exploring modern perspectives on a variety of traditional and contemporary topics, including Wason’s reasoning tasks, logic, meta-reasoning, thinking and culture, thinking in design, developmental reasoning, rationality and game theory, moral thinking, mood and thinking, the effect of environment and context on reasoning. The book will appeal to students and researchers of thinking and reasoning.

The field of thinking has undergone a revolution in recent years, opening itself up to new perspectives and applications. The traditional focus on laboratory-based thinking has transformed as theoretical work is now being applied to new contexts and real-world issues. This volume presents a state-of-the-art survey of human thinking in everyday life, based around, and in tribute to, one of the field’s most eminent figures: Ken Manktelow.

In this collection of cutting-edge research, Manktelow’s collaborators and colleagues review a wide range of important and developing areas of inquiry. This book explores modern perspectives on a variety of traditional and contemporary topics, including Wason’s reasoning tasks, logic, meta-reasoning, and the effect of environment and context on reasoning.

The Thinking Mind offers a unique combination of breadth, depth, theoretical exploration and real-world applications, making it an indispensable resource for researchers and students of human thinking.