Beyond Reasoning - 9780367645748

Taylor & Francis

Beyond ReasoningThe Life, Times and Work of Peter Wason, Pioneering Psychologist\nAuthor(s): Ken Manktelow\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367645748, 978-0367645748\nSynopsis\nThis book tells the story of Peter Cathcart Wason, offering unique insights into the life of the pioneering research psychologist credited for establishing a whole new field of science: the psychological study of reasoning. And this was just one of the major contributions he made to psychology.\n\nCovering much more than Wasons academic work, the author, Ken Manktelow, paints a vivid and personal portrait of the man. The book traces Wasons eclectic family history, steeped in Liberal politics and aristocratic antecedents, before moving through his service in the Second World War and the life-changing injuries he sustained at the end of it, and on to his abortive first attempt at a career and subsequent extraordinary success as a psychologi.