Module Overview
Originated by: Prof Markus Pantsar
Reason is the capacity for consciously making sense of things, establishing and verifying facts, applying logic, and changing or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information. Reasoning is closely identified with the ability to self-consciously change, in terms of goals, beliefs, attitudes, traditions, and institutions and is normally considered to be a distinguishing ability possessed by humans.
This module looks at reasoning as associated with thinking, cognition, and intellect and as a part of decision making.