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Dual Process Theories of Reasoning and Rationality

(Lead organizer: Keith Frankish)

In 2006 the MMR group sponsored a project on dual process theories of reasoning and rationality. This included the following events and publications:

Two seminars (held at The Open University, Milton Keynes):

• Professor Jonathan St B T Evans (University of Plymouth)
  A suppositional theory of If (25 January 2006)
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• Dr Richard Samuels (King's College London)
  What's wrong with the extended mind? (28 February 2006)
  Abstract

A three-day international conference:

• In Two Minds: Dual Process Theories of Reasoning and Rationality. 5-7th July 2006, Robinson College, Cambridge. Co-organizers: Keith Frankish and Carolyn Price.

Speakers included Peter Carruthers, Zoltan Dienes, Jonathan Evans, Keith Frankish, Vinod Goel, Paul Klaczynski, Matthew Lieberman, Ara Norenzayan, Mike Oaksford, David Over, Richard Samuels, Steven Sloman, Dan Sperber, and Keith Stanovich.

For more information about the event, together with abstracts, presentations, and draft papers, see the conference website.

An edited collection:

• Jonathan Evans and Keith Frankish (eds), In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Related publications:

• Survey article: Jonathan St B T Evans, 'Dual processing accounts of reasoning, judgement, and social cognition'. Annual Review of Psychology, 2008, in press. [Paper in PDF format]