Salvador Mascarenhas

Project Partner: Salvador Mascarenhas
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Salvador Mascarenhas
Laboratory for the Philosophy and Psychology of Rationality and Decision (LPPRD) University of Oxford

My research is on reasoning and decision-making at the interfaces of psychology, philosophy, and linguistics. More specifically, I investigate the contribution of linguistic elements to humans’ failures of reasoning. I am interested in how clinical populations reason, in particular individuals showing delusional ideation.

Location

Based in

France

Working in

France

Areas of interest in VBP

Research/philosophy, Research/other/psychology, Research/other/linguistics

Related areas of interest

Decision theory, Other/Role of interpretation in reasoning.

Publications

The erotetic theory of reasoning: Bridges between formal semantics and the psychology of deductive inference


LPPRDKoralus, P. and Mascarenhas, S. (2013). “The erotetic theory of reasoning: Bridges between formal semantics and the psychology of deductive inference. Philosophical Perspectives, 27, pp. 312-365.


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Laboratory for the Philosophy and Psychology of Rationality and Decision


http://www.lpprd.org/