Acknowledgements

Prologue

1. The nature of explanation

2. The doctrine of mental logic

3. Reasoning with propositions

4. Theories of the syllogism

5. How to reason syllogistically

6. Inference and mental models

7. Images, propositions, and models

8. Meaning in model-theoretic semantics

9. What is meaning?

10. How is the meaning of a word mentally represented?

11. Procedural semantics and the psychology of meaning

12. Grammar and psychology

13. Parsing and performance

14. The coherence of discourse

15. The nature of mental models

16. Consciousness and computation

Suggestions for further reading

Bibliography

Name index

Subject index