The psychology of verbal reasoning initially compared performance with classical logic. In
the last 25 years, a new paradigm has arisen, which focuses on knowledge-rich reasoning …

Intuition suggests that for a conditional to be evaluated as true, there must be some kind of
connection between its component clauses. In this paper, we formulate and test a new …

Conditionals and conditional reasoning are everywhere in ordinary and scientific discourse.
Ordinary people, politicians, civil engineers, and scientific consultants all have an interest in …

According to the view of conditionals named inferentialism, a conditional holds when its
consequent can be inferred from its antecedent. This paper identifies some major …

Abstract Reasoning with conditionals is central to everyday life, yet there is long-standing
disagreement about the meaning of the conditional. One example is the puzzle of so-called …

Our objective in this chapter is to introduce the study of indictive and counterfactual
conditionals in the psychology of reasoning, and to discuss how psychology can make …

In previous published research (“Conditionals and Inferential Connections: A Hypothetical
Inferential Theory,” Cognitive Psychology, 2018), we investigated experimentally what role …

There is wide support in logic, philosophy, and psychology for the hypothesis that the
probability of the indicative conditional of natural language, P (if A then B), is the conditional …

We present a unified approach for investigating rational reasoning about basic argument
forms involving indicative conditionals, counterfactuals, and basic quantified statements …

This chapter argues that recent developments in inferentialism in the psychology of
reasoning that challenge the suppositional approach advocated by David Over can be …