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Reasoning: The Integrative Model - Hardcover

Marty MD Mba, Jerry J

 
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The current work, Reasoning: The Integrative Model Plus Glossary (2026), weaves together an integrative framework for reasoning and complements the author's previous works: Critical Thinking2 - A Force Multiplier (2024) (a foray into how individuals discern, influenced by heuristics and biases, and cognitive phenomena that shape the human experience), followed by - Logical Fallacies, the Utility of Logic and Argumentation (2024) (evaluating and acting upon evidence, particularly information and facts, as distinguished from errors, misinformation, disinformation, and gaslighting), and, Reflecting on the Mind: Psychological Effects, Behavioral Laws and Cognitive Phenomena (2025) (lessons on how to model, and design systems around cognitive limitations - particularly to predict and anticipate action) - representing a journey from Critical Thinking to Logic and Argumentation, to Cognition, and finally, Reasoning.
Individuals seeking structured approaches to reasoning that embrace observation, analysis, evaluation, deliberation, and judgment before decision-making will benefit from its study. Reasoning emerges as a multi-level, multi-faceted cognitive process -- constrained by the realities of uncertainty in a milieu of complexity. A unifying principle underlying this book is reflexivity, the process of critically examining one's own heuristics and biases, assumptions, beliefs, logic, and experiences, as well as how these might influence perspective and behavioral action. In that recognition lies the sagacious construct of applied rationality.
This book is a primer that integrates epistemology, cognitive science, and decision science and theory into a comprehensive mesh framework for rational inquiry and thought, reflecting an exposition of structured approaches to reasoning and the eventual evaluation of evidence. Focusing on reasoning, decision frameworks, and evidence-based epistemic practice, the work bridges theory with methodological application. The formatting for chapters One through sixteen includes chapter abstracts strategically located at the beginning of each to summarize key theoretical and practical considerations, their previews, and their significance. Each chapter advances the discussion of Reasoning and the integration of epistemology, cognition, decision science, and theory - all of which impact the contemporary frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI).
The Epilogue presents a classification of cognitive phenomena by functional hierarchical level.
The Postscript presents artificial intelligence AI): Where Art Thou, And Where Goest Thou? - Following is an extended commentary about quantum computing and where it is all heading.
The Appendix section presents useful exercise datasets, topic-specific questions, URL sources, and supplementary materials.
The Addendum formulates a conceptual mathematical model of the modern Philosophy of Science and reasoning theory, and additionally provides selected basic equations and formulas in reasoning.
The Case Studies listing, organized by chapter, presents 18 informative, stimulating, and instructive cases.
Resources (cross-disciplinary and annotated) are provided with brief descriptions and summaries of key sources, assisting the reader in understanding their content and value and in assessing their relevance.
The combination of subjects and topics presented maintains thematic coherence and complementarity with the author's previous works.

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Dr. Jerry J. Marty received his medical degree (M.D.) in 1976 from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. After that, he completed six postgraduate years of training at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Postgraduate Year 1), Strong Memorial Hospital/University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York (Postgraduate Years 2 to 3, and 5 to 6) and completed an additional year in straight Internal Medicine at Saint Joseph's University Hospital -VA Medical Center/Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska (Postgraduate Year 4).
An eight-week Fellowship in Forensic Pathology was taken under the direction and tutelage of Dr. Werner Spitz, Co-Author of the "bible" of Forensic Pathology--Medicolegal Investigation of Death (now in its 5th Edition, 2020) at the Detroit Medical Examiner's Office in Detroit, Michigan, lamentably a designated murder capital of the United States at that time.
A Visiting Fellowship in Clinical Cytology and Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) was subsequently undertaken in the fall of 1989 under the world-renowned Dr. Torsten Lowhagen at the Karolinska Hospital and Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
The author is board-certified in Anatomic, Clinical, and Cyto-Pathology with sub-specialization in Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) Cytology. He has authored several publications in peer-reviewed medical journals and two separate book chapters in his field of expertise, specifically in Cytopathology and Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) Cytology.
Among his earlier responsibilities, Dr. Marty held teaching positions at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and later at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Pharmacy (now Northeast Ohio University College of Medicine (NEOMED), Rootstown, Ohio.
A Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at George Washington University, School of Business (GWSB), Washington, D.C., was conferred on May 17, 2009.
Dr. Marty's most recent professional position until 2016 was as Chairman of Pathology and Medical Director of Laboratories at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center (MFSMC), a three hundred seventy-eight (378) bed Joint Commission (JC) accredited hospital facility in Baltimore, Maryland (one of ten Hospitals comprising MedStar Health across Baltimore, Central Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Southern Maryland).
Dr. Marty is based in the United States and enjoys travel, photography, and Chess when not working.

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