Mindware : tools for smart thinking /
Nisbett, Richard E.,
Mindware : tools for smart thinking / Richard E. Nisbett. - First edition. - viii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
9780374112677 (hardcover) 9780374536244 (paperback)
2015005007
Reasoning.
Thought and thinking.
BC177 / .N57 2015
153.4
Mindware : tools for smart thinking / Richard E. Nisbett. - First edition. - viii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
9780374112677 (hardcover) 9780374536244 (paperback)
2015005007
Reasoning.
Thought and thinking.
BC177 / .N57 2015
153.4