Good Thinking: Seven Powerful Ideas That Influence the Way We Think
- 3h 49m
- Denise D. Cummins
- Cambridge University Press
- 2012
Do you know what economists mean when they refer to you as a "rational agent"? Or why a psychologist might label your idea a "creative insight"? After reading this book, you will know how the best and brightest thinkers judge the ways we decide, argue, solve problems, and tell right from wrong.
About the Author
Denise D. Cummins is adjunct professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She joined the faculty in 2005. She has taught and conducted research at Yale University, the University of California, the University of Arizona, and the Max Planck Institute for Adaptive Behavior in Berlin. She is the co-editor of Minds, Brains, and Computers: The Foundations of Cognitive Science, and The Evolution of Mind and author of The Other Side of Psychology: How Experimental Psychologists Find Out About the Way We Think and Act. Her publications also include dozens of articles in scholarly journals such as the Journal of Experimental Psychology, Cognition, and Synthese. She has been an invited speaker at such prestigious institutions as St. Andrews College (Scotland), Durham University, Emory University, and Dartmouth College.
In this Book
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Game Theory: When You are Not the Only One Choosing
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Rational Choice: Choosing What is Most Likely to Give You What You Want
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Moral Decision Making: How We Tell Right from Wrong
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The Game of Logic
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What Causes What?
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Hypothesis Testing: Truth and Evidence
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Problem Solving: Turning What You Don't Want into What You Want
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Analogical Reasoning: This is Like that
