Logic, Reasoning, and Cognitive Sciences

Logic has contributed to the development of cognitive sciences. The notion of reasoning as the calculation of representations has its antecedent in the logical definition of an argument. On the other hand, the idea of a mind that calculates is at the heart of the development of the most notable theory for cognitive science: the computational theory of mind. Classical CMT uses logical and mathematical models to characterize what the mind in general—and reasoning in particular—does: compute (or calculate).