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 Edge.org ("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
