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15 Pragmatics—A Rich Domain for the Study of Meta-Reasoning
Abstract Pragmatic reasoning tasks reveal that meta-reasoning is not only essential as a quality check of higher-order mental performance but also for the selection of appropriate strategies to solve problems for which more than a single normatively correct solution exists. Our analysis shows that pragmatic rules often dominate the logic of other normative rules, as illustrated in the context of the Wason-Selection Task. Various other paradigms corroborate the importance of meta-reasoning for strategy selection to disambiguate pragmatically uncertain problems that allow for different pragmatic interpretations. The remainder of this chapter elaborates on Peter Wason’s warning to refrain from too restrictive, overdetermined theoretical accounts of findings for which simpler explanations are available, framing of decisions and choice, the ratio bias and the related denominator neglect, anomalies in causal-impact judgments, metacognitive myopia in advice taking, and the ultimate sampling dilemma. We believe that meta-reasoning is sorely needed in present and future research on complex problem solving tasks, as depicted in the work of Joachim Funke (2010, 2014).
