David Moshman - From inference to reasoning: The construction of rationality

[gusl]

David Moshman - From inference to reasoning: The construction of rationality
is about the development of meta-cognition.

an interesting quote:

Cultural considerations, such as being indoctrinated in the ways
and/or beliefs of a religious, political, or other group, may also drive systems
of automatic inference and block ideologically unacceptable inferences.
Even as we construct beliefs and values of our own, self-serving biases direct
our inferences to avoid conflict with our identities (Klaczynski, 1997, 2000;
Klaczynski & Narasimham, 1998; Moshman, 2004).

Comments

[jbouwens.livejournal.com]

Makes sense. Have you ever tried discussing evolution vs creation or the existence/non-existence of a "higher being" with a devoutly religious person? It's impossible to do so in a rational, reasonable way. The very concept of a logical conclusion suddenly changes so that 1+1 no longer equals 2 with a high degree of probability.

Sounds exactly like what Moshman says.