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Lance Rips

Disciplines:
philosophy of mind
cognitive science

Summary

American cognitive psychologist who has worked on the psychology of reasoning, induction, and the development of number concepts.

Core Contribution

Contributed to understanding how people reason inductively about categories and to debates about the conceptual structure underlying numerical cognition.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Psychology of Proof

Historical Influences

Daniel Kahneman Amos Tversky

Intellectual Lineage

Cognitive Psychology

Contemporaries & Peers

Susan Carey

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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