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Levels of conflict in reasoning modulate right lateral prefrontal cortex

Brain Research, 2012
Right lateral prefrontal cortex (rlPFC) has previously been implicated in logical reasoning under conditions of conflict. A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study was conducted to explore its role in conflict more precisely. Specifically, we distinguished between belief-logic conflict and belief-content conflict, and examined the role of ...
Melanie, Stollstorff, Oshin, Vartanian, Vinod, Goel   +2 more
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Inferential reasoning and the influence of cognitive conflict

Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2002
This study follows two earlier studies of school students' abilities to draw inferences when comparing two datasets presented in graphical form (Watson and Moritz, 1999; Watson, 2001). Using the same interview protocol with a new sample of 60 students, 20 from each of grades 3,6 and 9, cognitive conflict was introduced in the form of video clips of ...
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The Morality of Conflict

2005
This book explores the relationship between the law and pervasive and persistent reasonable disagreement about justice. It reveals the central moral function and creative force of reasonable disagreement in and about the law and shows why and how lawyers and legal philosophers should take reasonable conflict more seriously.
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Conflicting Modes of Moral Reasoning; The Case of 24

2022
In this article I will argue that 24 can be seen as a variation of the tendency towards “narrative complexity” in current US TV series. Its straight-jacketed adherence to chronological time may not allow for fundamental disturbances of the discourse characteristic of many of its cinematic and televised contemporaries, but 24 distinguishes itself by ...
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Reasons for and Conditions of Origination of Legal Conflicts

History of state and law
The article examines the concept of legal conflict, the essential characteristics of legal conflicts, the subjective and objective causes and conditions of legal conflicts.
Olga V. Belyaeva, Yulia Yu. Kulakova
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Conflict Compromise Theory and Preference for Stages of Moral Reasoning

Psychological Reports, 1983
Issues important in consideration at 4 stages of moral reasoning (2, 3, 4, 5) were rated by 35 male and 48 female college students in terms of likelihood of use under 3 instructional sets: by self, by others (fellow students), and most admired. As predicted from conflict-compromise theories, the Stage 2 issues were rated in the following order: others
Thomas Muehleman, Terry Barrett
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Non-monotonic Resolution of Conflicts for Ethical Reasoning

2015
This chapter attempts to specify some of the requirements of ethical robotic systems. It begins with a short story by John McCarthy entitled, “The Robot and the Baby,” that shows how difficult it is for a rational robot to be ethical. It then characterizes the different types of “ethical robots” to which this approach is relevant and the nature of ...
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The role of conflict detection in meta-reasoning

2017
Recent research in the field of reasoning has been conducted in conjunction with the meta-reasoning framework which has been in development for the past decade. The study of how metacognitive judgments are generated and what are the determinants of those judgments has become the focus of many researchers.
Dujmović, Marin, Valerjev, Pavle
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Tolstoy's Hedgehog: Violence, Conflict, and the Deification of Reason

Perspectives on Political Science, 2014
AbstractIsaiah Berlin once famously wrote that intellectuals can be split into two types: hedgehogs and foxes. He argues that Leo Tolstoy falls into both camps simultaneously, resulting in a profound tension that provides the fundamental epistemological dilemma of War and Peace.
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Effect of the kinesthetic conflict on promoting scientific reasoning

Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1997
The importance of the kinesthetic-cognitive conflict (bodily experience that contradicts cognition) in the development of thinking is rooted in Piaget's theory. This article presents three studies which demonstrate the efficiency of the kinesthetic conflict in promoting the understanding of three scientific concepts among children aged 5–12.
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