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Mindware : tools for smart thinking / Richard E. Nisbett.

By: Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374112677 (hardcover)
  • 9780374536244 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153.4 23
LOC classification:
  • BC177 .N57 2015
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks BC177 .N57 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001455350

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.

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