Introduction: Inference and Consciousness

In Anders Nes & Timothy Hoo Wai Chan, Inference and Consciousness. London: Routledge. pp. 1-12 (2019)
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This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book offers support for unconscious inference from a slightly different angle, in as much as they defend a proposal on the nature of inference on which consciousness plays no essential role. It examines appeals to unconscious inference in cognitive science. The book explains about the explanatory power of the appeal to unconscious inference – especially unconscious Bayesian inference – in accounts of cognition. It focuses on pragmatic aspects of language comprehension. Several influential accounts of such comprehension agree in viewing it as an inferential achievement: this goes both for Grice’s account and that in relevance theory. The book deals with the traditional thought that inference – at least deductive inference – is structural or formal, and that it, as such, abstracts away from or generalizes across content.

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