Good thinking : seven powerful ideas that influence the way we think /
Cummins, Denise D.
Good thinking : seven powerful ideas that influence the way we think / Denise D. Cummins. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. - vii, 199 pages ; 25 cm
List of Figure
List of table
Acknowledgement
One
Introduction
Two
Game Theory: When you not the only one Choosing
Three
Rational Choice: Choosing what is most likely to give you what you want
Four
Moral Decision making: how we tell right from wrong
Five
The game of Logic
Six
What Cause what
Seven
Hypothesis testing:Truth And Evidence
Eight
problem Solving: Turning what you don't want into what you want
Nine Analogical reasoning: this is like that
"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"? Or how a philosopher could be logical but also passionate in persuading you to obey "moral imperatives"? Or why scientists disagree about the outcomes of experiments comparing drug treatments and disease risk factors? After reading this book, you will be wiser in two ways: You will know how the best and brightest thinkers judge the ways we decide, argue, solve problems, and tell right from wrong. But you will also understand why, when we don't meet these standards, it is not always a bad thing. The answers are rooted in the way the human brain has been evolutionarily wired over time to make us kinder and more generous than economists think we ought to be, and more resistant to change and persuasion than scientists and scholars think we ought to be"--
9781107644595
Thought and thinking.
Game theory.
Rational choice theory.
PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology.
153.4 / CUM
Good thinking : seven powerful ideas that influence the way we think / Denise D. Cummins. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. - vii, 199 pages ; 25 cm
List of Figure
List of table
Acknowledgement
One
Introduction
Two
Game Theory: When you not the only one Choosing
Three
Rational Choice: Choosing what is most likely to give you what you want
Four
Moral Decision making: how we tell right from wrong
Five
The game of Logic
Six
What Cause what
Seven
Hypothesis testing:Truth And Evidence
Eight
problem Solving: Turning what you don't want into what you want
Nine Analogical reasoning: this is like that
"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"? Or how a philosopher could be logical but also passionate in persuading you to obey "moral imperatives"? Or why scientists disagree about the outcomes of experiments comparing drug treatments and disease risk factors? After reading this book, you will be wiser in two ways: You will know how the best and brightest thinkers judge the ways we decide, argue, solve problems, and tell right from wrong. But you will also understand why, when we don't meet these standards, it is not always a bad thing. The answers are rooted in the way the human brain has been evolutionarily wired over time to make us kinder and more generous than economists think we ought to be, and more resistant to change and persuasion than scientists and scholars think we ought to be"--
9781107644595
Thought and thinking.
Game theory.
Rational choice theory.
PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology.
153.4 / CUM