CV: PROFESSOR MIKE OAKSFORD, PhD, DSc, FBPsS, FAPS
Date of Birth 27th February, 1956
Address
Department of Psychological Sciences
Birkbeck College
University of London
Malet Street
London, WCIE 7HX
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail
[email protected]
Telephone
+44 (0) 020 7079 0879
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS
2005Professor of Psychology, Head of Department, Department of
Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London
1996-2005
Professor of Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Cardiff
University
1994-1996
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick
1989-1994
Lecturer (B), Department of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor
1988-1989
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Cognitive Science, University
of Edinburgh
QUALIFICATIONS
DSc.
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 2001
Ph.D.
Centre for Cognitive Science, Faculty of Science, University of
Edinburgh, 1989
BA(Hons.)
Philosophy and Psychology, St. Cuthbert’s Society, University of Durham,
(First), 1985
DISTINCTIONS, AWARDS AND HONOURS
2012
Fellowship of the Association for Psychological Science (FAPS) for
“sustained and outstanding distinguished contributions to Psychological
Science.”
2001
Doctor of Science (DSc.), University of Edinburgh, for the publication of
the book Rationality in an Uncertain World, Psychology Press.
1999 (March) Invited Visiting Professor at the Department of Experimental Psychology,
University of Leuven, Belgium.
1999
Fellowship of the British Psychological Society (FBPsS) for “making an
outstanding contribution to psychological knowledge.”
1997 (June) Invited Visiting Professor at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychological
Research, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Munich,
Germany.
1996-2004
Honorary Fellow of the Psychology Department, University of Warwick.
1995
Spearman Medal of the British Psychological Society, for making an
outstanding contribution to psychological knowledge during the first 10
years since gaining an undergraduate degree in psychology.
1995
Cognitive Section Award of the British Psychological Society, for the best
cognitive psychology journal article of 1994.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Editing/Editorial Boards
2005 Consulting Editor for Psychological Review (American Psychological
Association, USA).
2004 - 2007 Consulting Editor for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning,
Memory, & Cognition (American Psychological Association, USA).
2002 - 2008 Consulting Editor for Memory and Cognition (Psychonomic Society,
USA).
2001 - 2005 Associate Editor for the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
(A) (Experimental Psychology Society, UK).
1997 Editorial board of Thinking and Reasoning (Psychology Press, UK).
Journal Reviews
I have reviewed papers for:
Acta Psychologica; Applied Logic; Behavioral & Brain Sciences; British Journal
of Psychology; Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive; Canadian Journal of
Experimental Psychology; Cognition & Emotion; Cognitive Science;
Developmental Science; Erkenntnis; Evolution and Human Behavior;
Experimental Psychology; Human Brain Mapping; Journal of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers; International Journal of Human Computer
Studies; Journal of Child Language; Journal of Decision Making; Journal of
Experimental Child Psychology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General;
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance;
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition; Journal of
Language, Logic and Information; Journal of Memory & Language; Linguistics
& Philosophy; Memory & Cognition; Mind & Language; Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society B; Psychological Bulletin; Psychological
Review; Psychological Research; Psychological Science; Psychonomic Bulletin
& Review; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Social Studies of
Science; Synthese; The Psychologist; Theory & Psychology; Thinking &
Reasoning; Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Grant Reviewing
I have reviewed grants for:
National Science Foundation of the USA; The Austrian Science Foundation; The
Dutch Fund for Scientific Research; Swiss National Science Foundation; Joint
Research Councils Initiative on Cognitive Science and Human Computer
Interaction; The Leverhulme Trust; The Economic and Social Research Council
(UK); The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UK); The
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK): Arts and Humanities
Research Council (UK).
Book Proposals
I have reviewed book proposals for:
Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, McGraw-Hill, McMillan Press,
MIT Press, Oxford University Press, and the Psychology Press.
Advisory Roles
1999
Consultant on mood induction procedures for Unilever Research,
Colworth Laboratory.
2002
Specialist Advisor for the London School of Economics, Promotions
Committee.
2004
External Advisor on Professorial Appointment Panel for Warwick
University.
2005
External Assessor on Promotion to Professor for Warwick University.
2005
Consultant on decision making and information search for Qinetiq
Research.
2009
International Advisor to the Irish Research Council for Humanities and
Social Sciences Advanced Fellowships and Fellowships Scheme.
2009
External Advisor to the University of Kent RAE2008 Review Panel to
review the performance of the Department of Psychology.
2010
Member of the ESRC Advanced Quantitative Methods (AQM)
Assessment Panel.
2010
Member of the European Science Foundation Pool of Peer Reviewers.
2010
Consultant HoD to the RCUK/AHPD/EPS/BPS Benchmarking Review of
UK Psychology.
2010
Consultant on Cognition and Perception to the RCUK/AHPD/EPS/BPS
Benchmarking Review of UK Psychology.
2011
International Advisor to the Irish Research Council for Humanities and
Social Sciences Advanced Fellowships and Fellowships Scheme.
2011
Member of the ESRC Advanced Quantitative Methods (AQM)
Assessment Panel.
2012
External Advisor to the University of Sussex, Psychology Department
Periodic Review.
2012
External Advisor to the Royal Holloway, University of London,
Psychology Department Periodic Review.
2012
External Advisor on Professorial Appointment Panel for Cardiff
University.
2013
International Advisor to the Irish Research Council for Humanities and
Social Sciences Advanced Fellowships and Fellowships Scheme.
External Examining
1998-2000
External examiner for undergraduate degree programmes for the
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex.
Ph.Ds
I have been the external examiner for 5 Ph.Ds: Dr. Aureliu Lavric
(University of Warwick); Dr. Emanuel Pothos (University of Oxford);
Dr. Ivaylo Vlaev (University of Oxford); Dr. Carolyn Rice (Birkbeck
College London); Dr. Stelios Lelis (University of Manchester).
Conference Organization
2013
London Reasoning Workshop7 2013.
2012
7th International Conference on Thinking (Local Organiser and
Conference Committee Chair). Plenary Speakers: Professors Maya BarHillel (Hebrew University, Israel), Jonathan Evans (University of
Plymouth, UK), Chris Frith FRS (UCL, UK), Keith Holyoak (UCLA,
USA), Phil Johnson-Laird FRS (Princeton, USA), Dan Sperber (Central
European University, Budapest), Josh Tenenbaum (MIT, USA).
2011
London Reasoning Workshop6 2011.
2010
London Reasoning Workshop5 2010.
2009
London Reasoning Workshop4 2009.
2008
London Reasoning Workshop3 2008: Festschrift for Jonathan St.B T
Evans.
2007
London Reasoning Workshop2 2007: The Psychology of Conditionals.
Invited speakers: Professors David O’Brien (New York), Henry
Markovits (Montreal), and Valerie Thompson (Saskatchewan).
2006
London Reasoning Workshop1 2006: Festschrift for David Over. Joint
organizer with Prof. J. St.B T. Evans (Plymouth).
2006
The Probabilistic Mind: Prospects for Rational Models of Cognition.
(Gatsby Centre for Computational Neuroscience, UCL). Invited speakers:
Professors Gerd Gigerenzer (Max Planck, Berlin), Josh Tenenbaum
(MIT), John Anderson (Carnegie Mellon), and Klaus Fiedler
(Heidelberg). (Joint organizer with Prof. Nick Chater [UCL]).
1996
Rational Models of Cognition (University of Warwick). Invited speakers:
Professors John R. Anderson (Carnegie Mellon), Richard M. Shiffrin
(Indiana), James L. McClelland (Carnegie Mellon) and Robert M.
Nosofsky (Indiana).
1992
Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop: Neurodynamics and
Psychology (University of Wales, Bangor). Invited speakers: Professors
Jean-Pierre Changeux (Institut Pasteur, Paris), Tim Shallice (UCL), Marc
Richelle (Liege) and John Taylor (King’s College, London). (Joint
organizer with Prof. Gordon D. A. Brown [Warwick]). This was the first
in a series of NCPW workshops which still occur biannually.
Conference Committees
2001
Conference Program Committee Member for the Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society, Edinburgh, Scotland
2002
Conference Program Committee Member for the Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
2007
Conference Program Committee Member for the European Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society, Delphi, Greece.
2011
Conference Program Committee Member for the European Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society, Sophia, Bulgaria.
2011
2012
2013
Conference Program Committee Member for Formal Epistemology Meets
Experimental Philosophy, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Conference Program Committee Member for the Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society, Sapporo, Japan.
Conference Program Committee Member for the Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
ADMINISTRATION
University Level
2007 – 2010 Member of the Clerical, Craft, Technical and Related Staff Joint
Committee, Birkbeck College, University of London. Oversees HR policy
jointly with the Trades Unions.
2006 – 2011 Member of the Nominations Committee, Birkbeck College, University of
London. Recommends appointments to College Committees and Co-opted
Lay Governors to the Board of Governors.
2006 – 2011 Member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee, Birkbeck
College, University of London
2005 – 2011 Academic Governor, Birkbeck College, University of London
2004 – 2005 Chair of the Cardiff University Research Ethics Committee (Only non
Pro-VC to chair a University Committee). This committee oversees the
work of School RECs across the newly merged institution.
1999 – 2004 Member of the University Personnel Committee, Cardiff University. The
committee oversees all human resource issues across the University.
1999 – 2004 Member of the Technicians Re-grading Panel, Cardiff University.
Together with Trades Union representatives, this panel assesses
applications for re-grading on a yearly basis.
Department/School Level
2005 –
Head of Department (Birkbeck College London)
Chair of the Staff Committee
Chair of the Management Committee
Chair of the Research Committee (Member of the RAE2008 and REF2014
Working Groups)
1996 – 2004 Chair of the Psychology School Research Ethics Committee (Cardiff
University)
1996 – 2005 Chair of the Participant Panel Committee (Cardiff University)
1996 – 2005 Member of the Resources Board (Cardiff University)
1996 – 2005 Member of the Research Committee (Cardiff University)
1996 – 2005 Member of the Professors Committee (Cardiff University)
1997 – 2005 Member of the Promotions Committee (Cardiff University)
1997 – 2005 School Examinations Officer (Cardiff University)
RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISION
Frances Morris
Andrea Mumford
Simon Moore
Joselyn Sellen
Nick Perham
Adam Corner
Stephen Jones
Germaine Symons
James Vance
Chris Brand
Ph.D. (1997), The Psychology of Information Selection and
Reasoning. Psychology Department, University of Wales,
Bangor.
Ph.D. (1997), A Mathematical Study of Non-Target Interference
Effects in Selective Prehension. Psychology Department,
University of Warwick, I was first Supervisor with Prof. Ian
Stewart (Maths, Warwick) and with the assistance of Prof.
Steve Tipper (Bangor).
Ph.D. (2000), The Emotional Modulation of Human
Categorization Processes. School of Psychology, Cardiff
University.
Ph.D. (2002), Schizotypy, Reasoning, and Semantic Memory.
School of Psychology, Cardiff University.
Ph.D. (2003), The Effects of Anticipated and Experienced
Emotion on Deontic Reasoning. School of Psychology, Cardiff
University.
Ph.D. (2008), A Bayesian Approach to the Slippery Slope
Argument. School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Joint with
Prof. Ulrike Hahn.
Ph.D., (2007-current), Transactions and the Temporal and
Probabilistic Discounting of Costs. Department of
Psychological Science¸ Birkbeck College London.
Ph.D., (2008-current), Bayes Net Models of Source Reliability
and Children’s Scientific Reasoning. Department of
Psychological Science¸ Birkbeck College London.
Ph.D., (2009-current), Negations and Reasoning in Natural
Discourse. Department of Psychological Science¸ Birkbeck
College London.
Ph.D., (2011-current), Causal possibility and Moral Reasoning.
Department of Psychological Science¸ Birkbeck College
London.
RESEARCH GRANTS
A theoretical and experimental investigation of human conditional reasoning.
(ESRC, £34,000, 10/88 - 10-90). Mike Oaksford, Keith Stenning (Edinburgh).
A Bayesian model of human hypothesis testing in Wason’s selection task.
(British Academy, £2,300, 9/93 - 3/94) Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater (Edinburgh).
Reasoning and Frontal Lobe Dysfunction
(University of Wales, Bangor, Research Committee Grant, £2,100, 9/93 - 3/94)
Mike Oaksford
Negations: Reasoning and representation.
(British Academy, £2,300, 3/94 - 9/94) Mike Oaksford
Negations: Reasoning and representation.
(Leverhulme Trust, £42,885, 7/95 - 6/97) Mike Oaksford
Probabilistic models of reasoning: The case of conditional inference.
(ESRC, £28,850, 7/95 - 6/96) Mike Oaksford, Dr. Nick Chater (Oxford).
Personality disorder, information processing, and social problem solving in offenders
(NHS National Programme on Forensic Mental Health R&D, £140,000, 4/04 –
4/07) Mary McMurran, Mike Oaksford, and Jo Sellen (University of Wales
Institute, Cardiff).
INVITED TALKS
Invited Speaker
12/95
Spearman Medal Award Lecture, British Psychological Society, London
Conference.
7/96
International Congress of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal,
Canada (Invited Symposiast, Organiser: Professor Keith Holyoak).
10/96
International Conference on Thinking, University College London (Invited
Symposiast in two Symposia, Organisers: Professor Nick Chater and
Professor Keith Stenning).
11/96
ESRC Economic Beliefs and Behaviour Programme. One day workshop
on The Odd-One-Out Phenomenon, St. Catherine’s College, University of
Oxford. (Organised by Professor Mike Bacharach, Bounded Rationality in
Economic Behaviour Unit, Institute of Economics and Statistics,
University of Oxford).
2/98
Vancouver Cognitive Science Conference on Commonsense, Reasoning,
and Rationality.
1/99
ESRC conference on Decision Making and Reasoning, at the London
Guildhall University.
3/99
Workshop on Decision Processes and Individual Differences in
Reasoning, University of Plymouth.
7/00
Symposium on The Psychology of Human Reasoning: The States of its
Various Arts, BPS Centenary Conference, Glasgow
3/02
Mind & Language Conference on Conditionals, Birkbeck College
London.
5/04
Workshop on Conditionals, University of Plymouth.
10/10
Workshop on Bayesian Argumentation, University of Lund, Sweden.
3/12
Keynote Speaker at the 9th Oxford Brain Day on The Thinking Brain,
University of Oxford.
9/12
Keynote Speaker at the Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive
Science Society, Bamberg, Germany.
9/13
The 8th A. R. Jonckheere Lecture, University College London: “An
Integrative Theory of Human Reasoning: Modelling the Physical and
Social Worlds”.
Invited Seminar Talks (from 1996)
1/96
Chaucer Club, Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit,
Cambridge.
2/96
Psychology Department, University of Leicester.
10/96
10/96
11/96
2/97
11/98
2/99
3/02
1/03
12/03
12/03
1/08
2/09
1/10
2/11
2/11
10/11
5/12
Psychology Department, University of Reading.
Psychology Department, University of Warwick.
Psychology Department, University of Sussex.
Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh.
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex.
Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, London.
Department of Psychology, University of Reading.
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick
Department of Psychology, University of Manchester
Department of Psychology, University of Exeter
Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh
Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow
Department of Psychology, University of Essex
Department of Psychology, University of Kent
Department of Psychology, University of Uppsala, Sweden
Department of Psychology, University of Durham
COGS Seminar, University of Sussex
PUBLICATIONS
In Preparation
Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (in prep.). Syllogistic reasoning with generalized quantifiers.
Harris, A., Hahn, U., & Oaksford, M. (in prep.)
Oaksford, M. (in prep.). Psychological theories of deductive reasoning: An introduction.
London: Palgrave-Macmillan.
In Submission
Oaksford, M. (in sub.). Dual processes in explicit and enthymematic conditional
reasoning: Its probabilities all the way up.
In Press
Hahn, U., & Oaksford, M. (in press). The fallacies explained. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Oaksford, M. (in press). Integrative models of reasoning. Thinking and Reasoning.
Oaksford, M. (in press). Probabilities and mental models in reflection and simulation in
tri-process theory. Thinking and Reasoning.
Oaksford, M. (2013). Bayesian argumentation and the pragmatic approach: Comment on
Darmstadter. Thinking and Reasoning.
2013
Chater, N., & Oaksford, M. (2013). Programs as causal models: Speculations on mental
programs and mental representation. Cognitive Science. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12062
Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2013). Dynamic inference and everyday conditional
reasoning in the new paradigm. Thinking and Reasoning.
doi:10.1080/13546783.2013.808163
Quraishi, S., & Oaksford, M. (2013). Emotion as an argumentative strategy: How
induced mood affects the evaluation of neutral and inflammatory slippery slope
arguments. In I. Blanchette (Ed.). Reasoning and emotion (pp. 95-118). Hove,
Sussex: Psychology Press.
Hahn, U., Oaksford, M., & Harris, A. J. L. (2013). Testimony and argument: A Bayesian
perspective. In F. Zenker (Ed.). Bayesian argumentation (pp. 15-38). Dordrecht:
Springer.
Oaksford, M., & Hahn, U. (2013). Why are we convinced by the ad hominem argument?:
Bayesian source reliability and pragma-dialectical discussion rules. In F. Zenker
(Ed.). Bayesian argumentation (pp. 39-59). Dordrecht: Springer.
Hahn, U., Harris, A.J.L., & Oaksford, M. (2013): Rational argument, rational inference.
Argument and Computation, 4, 21-35.
Oaksford, M. (2013). Quantum probability, intuition, and human rationality. Behavioral
& Brain Sciences, 36, 303.
2012
Oaksford, M., Chater, N., & Stewart, N. (2012). Reasoning and decision making. In
Frankish, K., & Ramsey, W. (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of cognitive
science (pp. 131-150). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Chater, N., & Oaksford, M. (2012). Normative systems: Logic, probability, and rational
choice. In K. Holyoak, & R. Morrison (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of thinking
and reasoning (pp. 11-21). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hahn, U., & Oaksford, M. (2012). Rational argument. In K. Holyoak, & R. Morrison
(Eds.), The Oxford handbook of thinking and reasoning (pp. 277-299). Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2012). Dual processes, probabilities, and cognitive
architecture. Mind and Society, 11, 15-26.
Oaksford, M. (2012). Reasoning. In N. Braisby & A. Gellatly (Eds.), Cognitive
psychology (2nd ed.) (pp. 366-392). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2011
Jones, S., & Oaksford, M. (2011b). Preferences show greater stability for transactions
than for gambles in cost discounting. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 293.
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00293
Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2011). The “is-ought fallacy” fallacy. Behavioral & Brain
Sciences, 34, 262-263.
Chater, N., Goodman, N., Griffiths, T., Kemp, C., Oaksford, M., & Tenenbaum, J.
(2011). The imaginary fundamentalists: The unshocking truth about Bayesian
cognitive science. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 34, 194-196.
Jones, S., & Oaksford, M. (2011a). Transactional problem content in cost discounting:
Parallel effects for probability and delay. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 37, 739-747.
Ali, N., Chater, N., & Oaksford, M. (2011). The mental representation of causal
conditional inference: Causal models or mental models. Cognition, 119, 403-418.
Oaksford, M. (2011). Putting reasoning and judgement in their proper argumentative
place. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 34, 84-85.
Corner, A., Hahn. U., & Oaksford, M. (2011). The psychological mechanism of the
slippery slope argument. Journal of Memory and Language, 64, 133-152.
Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2011). Dual systems and dual processes but a single
function. In K. I. Manktelow, D. E. Over, & S. Elqayam (Eds.), The science of
reason: A Festschrift for Jonathan St.B. T. Evans (pp. 339-351). Hove, Sussex:
Psychology Press.
Chater, N., Oaksford, M., Heit, E., & Hahn, U. (2011). Inductive logic and empirical
psychology. In D. Gabbay, S. Hartmann, & J. Woods (Eds.), The Handbook of the
History of Logic: Inductive Logic (Volume 10) (pp. 553-624), Amsterdam: North
Holland.
2010
Chater, N., Oaksford, M., Heit, E., & Hahn, U. (2010). Bayesian models of cognition.
WIREs Cognitive Science, 1, 811-823.
McMurran, M., Oaksford, M., & Christopher, G. (2010). Does social problem solving
mediate the relationship between personality traits and personality disorders? An
exploratory study with a sample of male prisoners. Personality and Mental
Health, 3, 180-192.
Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2010). Causation and conditionals in the cognitive science
of human reasoning. Open Psychology Journal, 3, 105-118. (Special issue on
Causal learning beyond causal judgment, Edited by J. C. Perales, & D. R.
Shanks).
Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (Eds.) (2010). Cognition and conditionals: Probability and
logic in human thinking. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2010). Cognition and conditionals: An introduction. In M.
Oaksford & N. Chater (Eds.), Cognition and conditionals: Probability and logic
in human thinking (pp. 3-36). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2010). Conditionals and constraint satisfaction: Reconciling
mental models and the probabilistic approach? In M. Oaksford & N. Chater
(Eds.), Cognition and conditionals: Probability and logic in human thinking (pp.
309-334). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ali, N, Schlottmann, A., Shaw, C., Chater, N., & Oaksford, M., (2010). Conditionals and
causal discounting in children. In M. Oaksford & N. Chater (Eds.), Cognition and
conditionals: Probability and logic in human thinking (pp. 117-134). Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Chater, N., & Oaksford, M. (2010). Epilogue: Open issues in the cognitive science of
conditionals. In M. Oaksford & N. Chater (Eds.), Cognition and conditionals:
Probability and logic in human thinking (pp. 389-402). Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
2009
Chater, N., & Oaksford, M. (2009). Local and global inferential relations: Response to
Over (2009). Thinking and Reasoning, 15, 439-446.
Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2009a). The uncertain reasoner: Bayes, logic and rationality.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 105-120.
Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2009b). Precis of “Bayesian rationality: The probabilistic
approach to human reasoning.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 69-84.
2008
Oaksford, M. (2008). Stimulus equivalence and the origins of reasoning, language, and
working memory. Cognitive Studies, 15, 392-407.
Oberauer, K., & Oaksford, M. (2008). Still in search of a good theory of reasoning:
Rejoinder to Barrioullet, Gauffroy, and Lecas (2008). Psychological Review, 115,
778.
Oberauer, K., & Oaksford, M. (2008). What must a psychological theory of reasoning
explain? Comment on Barrioullet, Gauffroy, and Lecas (2008). Psychological
Review, 115, 773-778.
Oaksford, K., Oaksford, M., Ashraf, M., & Fitzgibbon, G. (2008). Comparing
neuropsychological function before and during haemodialysis: A habituating
selective deficit for prose recall. British Journal of Health Psychology, 13, 273289.
Oaksford, M., Chater, N., & Hahn, U. (2008). Human reasoning and argumentation: The
probabilistic approach. In J. Adler & L. Rips (Eds.), Reasoning: Studies of human
inference and its foundations (pp. 383-413). Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Chater, N., & Oaksford, M. (Eds.) (2008). The probabilistic mind: Prospects for
Bayesian cognitive science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hahn, U., & Oaksford, M. (2008). Inference from absence in language and thought. In N.
Chater & M. Oaksford (Eds.), The probabilistic mind: Prospects for Bayesian
cognitive science (pp. 121-142). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2008). Probability logic and the Modus Ponens-Modus
Tollens asymmetry in conditional inference. In N. Chater, & M. Oaksford (Eds.),
The probabilistic mind: Prospects for Bayesian cognitive science (pp. 97-120).
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chater, N., & Oaksford, M. (2008). The probabilistic mind: Prospects for a Bayesian
cognitive science. In N. Chater, & M. Oaksford (Eds.), The probabilistic mind:
Prospects for Bayesian cognitive science (pp. 3-31). Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Chater, N., & Oaksford, M. (2008). The probabilistic mind: Where next? In N. Chater, &
M. Oaksford (Eds.), The probabilistic mind: Prospects for Bayesian cognitive
science (pp. 497-510). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2007
Hahn, U., & Oaksford, M. (2007). The burden of proof and its role in argumentation.
Argumentation, 21, 39-61.
Hattori, M., & Oaksford, M. (2007). Adaptive non-interventional heuristics for covariation detection in causal induction: Model comparison and rational analysis.
Cognitive Science, 31, 765-814.
Hahn, U., & Oaksford, M. (2007). The rationality of informal argumentation: A Bayesian
approach to reasoning fallacies. Psychological Review, 114, 704-732.
Oaksford, M., & Hahn, U. (2007). Induction, deduction and argument strength in human
reasoning and argumentation. In A. Feeney, & E. Heit (Eds.), Inductive reasoning
(pp. 269-301). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2007). Bayesian rationality: The probabilistic approach to
human reasoning. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2006
Hahn, U., & Oaksford, M. (2006). A normative theory of argument strength. Informal
Logic, 26, 1-22.
Oaksford, M., & Hahn, U. (2006). Non-monotonicity and informal reasoning: Comment
on Ferguson. Argumentation, 20, 245-251.
Hahn, U., & Oaksford, M. (2006). A Bayesian approach to informal argument fallacies.
Synthese, 152, 207-236.
Oaksford, M. (2006). Making connections in conditional inference [Review of If].
American Journal of Psychology, 119, 161-167.
Chater, N., & Oaksford, M. (2006). Mental mechanisms. In K. Fiedler, & P. Juslin (Eds.),
Information sampling and adaptive cognition (pp. 210-236). Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
2005
Perham, N. R., & Oaksford, M. (2005). Deontic reasoning with emotional content:
Evolutionary psychology or decision theory? Cognitive Science, 29, 681-718.
Hahn, U., Oaksford, M., & Bayindir, H. (2005). How convinced should we be by
negative evidence? In B. Bara, L. Barsalou, and M. Bucciarelli (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp.
887-892), Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Hahn, U., Oaksford, M., & Corner, A. (2005). Circular arguments, begging the question
and the formalization of argument strength. In A. Russell, T. Honkela, K. Lagus,
and M. Pöllä, (Eds.), Proceedings of AMKLC'05, International Symposium on
Adaptive Models of Knowledge, Language and Cognition, (pp. 34-40), Espoo,
Finland, June 2005.
Sellen, J., Oaksford, M., & Gray, N. (2005). Schizotypy and conditional inference.
Schizophrenia Bulletin, 31, 105-116.
Chater, N., Heit, E., & Oaksford, M. (2005). Reasoning. In K. Lamberts & R. Goldstone
(Eds.), The Handbook of Cognition (pp. 297-320). London: Sage Publications.
2004
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1998
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1996
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1994
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1993
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1992
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1990
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