Mindware : tools for smart thinking / Richard E. Nisbett.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374112677 (hardcover)
- 9780374536244 (paperback)
- 153.4 23
- BC177 .N57 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-305) and index.
Thinking about thought -- Everything's an inference -- Out of context or the situation -- The rational unconscious -- The formerly dismal science -- Should you think like an economist? -- Spilt milk and free lunch -- Foiling foibles -- Coding, counting, correlation, and causality -- Odds and Ns -- Linked up -- Experiments -- Ignore the hippo -- Experiments natural and experiments proper -- Eekonomics -- Don't ask, can't tell -- Thinking, straight and curved -- Logic -- Dialecticism -- Knowing the world -- Kiss and tell -- Keeping it real -- Whom to believe.