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Unlock your mind. From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast
and Slow
; The Black Swan; and Stumbling
on Happiness
comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries
of rational thought, decision-making, intuition, morality, willpower,
problem-solving, prediction, forecasting, unconscious behavior, and beyond.

Edited by John Brockman, publisher of [...] ("The world's smartest
website"—The
Guardian
), Thinking presents
original ideas by today's leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and
philosophers who are radically expanding our understanding of human thought.

Contributors include:



  • Daniel Kahneman on the power (and
    pitfalls) of human intuition and "unconscious" thinking
  • Daniel Gilbert on desire,
    prediction, and why getting what we want doesn't always make us happy
  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the
    limitations of statistics in guiding decision-making
  • Vilayanur Ramachandran on the
    scientific underpinnings of human nature
  • Simon Baron-Cohen on the
    startling effects of testosterone on the brain
  • Daniel C. Dennett on decoding the
    architecture of the "normal" human mind
  • Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on mental
    disorders and the crucial developmental phase of adolescence
  • Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, and
    Roy Baumeister on the science of morality, ethics, and the emerging synthesis
    of evolutionary and biological thinking
  • Gerd Gigerenzer on rationality
    and what informs our choices

Unlock your mind. From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast
and Slow
; The Black Swan; and Stumbling
on Happiness
comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries
of rational thought, decision-making, intuition, morality, willpower,
problem-solving, prediction, forecasting, unconscious behavior, and beyond.

Edited by John Brockman, publisher of [...] ("The world's smartest
website"—The
Guardian
), Thinking presents
original ideas by today's leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and
philosophers who are radically expanding our understanding of human thought.

Contributors include:



  • Daniel Kahneman on the power (and
    pitfalls) of human intuition and "unconscious" thinking
  • Daniel Gilbert on desire,
    prediction, and why getting what we want doesn't always make us happy
  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the
    limitations of statistics in guiding decision-making
  • Vilayanur Ramachandran on the
    scientific underpinnings of human nature
  • Simon Baron-Cohen on the
    startling effects of testosterone on the brain
  • Daniel C. Dennett on decoding the
    architecture of the "normal" human mind
  • Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on mental
    disorders and the crucial developmental phase of adolescence
  • Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, and
    Roy Baumeister on the science of morality, ethics, and the emerging synthesis
    of evolutionary and biological thinking
  • Gerd Gigerenzer on rationality
    and what informs our choices
Über den Autor

The publisher of the online science salon [...], John Brockman is the editor of Know This, This Idea Must Die, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Ratgeber
Thema: Lebensführung allgemein
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780062258540
ISBN-10: 0062258540
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Brockman, John
Hersteller: Harper Collins Publ. USA
Harper Perennial
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 131 x 199 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: John Brockman
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.08.2016
Gewicht: 0,372 kg
Artikel-ID: 106062156

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