{"pk":33205,"title":"In Defense of Logical Minds","subtitle":null,"abstract":"According to the received view in the psychology of reasoning, Piaget's view that: F Humans naturally develop a context-free deductive reasoning scheme at the level of elementary first-order logic. has been overthrown by the poor performance of educated adult subjects on specific logic problems (e.g., Wason's selection task). I propose that Piaget's F (or at least a variant) is alive and well, because the subjects in question are simply victims of a defective education. With a modicum of the right sort of logic training, humans reason deductively on logic problems well enough to vindicate Piaget.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Long Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/47k8923n","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Selmer","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bringsjord","name_suffix":"","institution":"Dept. of Philosophy, Psychology & Cognitive Science, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute","department":""},{"first_name":"Ron","middle_name":"","last_name":"Noel","name_suffix":"","institution":"Dept. of Philosophy, Psychology & Cognitive Science, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute","department":""},{"first_name":"Elizabeth","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bringsjord","name_suffix":"","institution":"Dept. of Philosophy, Psychology & Cognitive Science, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1998-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33205/galley/24265/download/"}]}