Inevitable Illusions

Author : Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 047115962X

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Inevitable Illusions by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini Pdf

"Fascinating and insightful. . . . I cannot recall a book that has made me think more about the nature of thinking." -- Richard C. Lewontin Harvard University Everyone knows that optical illusions trick us because of the way we see. Now scientists have discovered that cognitive illusions, a set of biases deeply embedded in the human mind, can actually distort the way we think. In Inevitable Illusions, distinguished cognitive researcher Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini takes us on a provocative, challenging, and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the games our minds play. He opens the doors onto the newly charted realm of the cognitive unconscious to reveal the full range of illusions, showing how they inhibit our ability to reason--no matter what our educational background or IQ. Inevitable Illusions is stimulating, eye-opening food for thought.

Author : Rüdiger F Pohl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000548112

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Cognitive Illusions by Rüdiger F Pohl Pdf

Cognitive Illusions explores a wide range of fascinating psychological effects in the way we think, judge and remember in our everyday lives. In this volume, Rüdiger F. Pohl brings together leading international researchers to define what cognitive illusions are and discuss their theoretical status: are such illusions proof of a faulty human information-processing system, or do they only represent by-products of otherwise adaptive cognitive mechanisms? The book describes and discusses 26 different cognitive illusions, with each chapter giving a profound overview of the respective empirical research including potential explanations, individual differences, and relevant applied perspectives. This edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, featuring new chapters on negativity bias, metacognition, and how we respond to fake news, along with detailed descriptions of experiments that can be used as classroom demonstration in every chapter. Demonstrating just how diverse cognitive illusions can be, it is a must read for all students and researchers of cognitive illusions, specifically, those focusing on thinking, reasoning, decision-making, and memory.

Author : Rüdiger Pohl
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781841693514

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Cognitive Illusions by Rüdiger Pohl Pdf

Cognitive Illusions investigates a wide range of fascinating psychological effects in the way we think, judge and remember in our everyday lives. At the beginning of each chapter, leading researchers in the field introduce the background to phenomena such as illusions of control, overconfidence and hindsight bias. This is followed by an explanation of the experimental context in which these illusions can be investigated and a theoretical discussion drawing conclusions about the wider implications of these fallacy and bias effects. Written with researchers and instructors in mind, this tightly edited, reader-friendly text provides both an overview of research in the area and many lively pedagogic features such as chapter summaries, further reading lists and suggestions for classroom demonstrations.

Author : Aditi Bhatia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317691877

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Discursive Illusions in Public Discourse by Aditi Bhatia Pdf

This book presents a unique perspective into the investigation and analysis of public discourses, such as those of the environment, politics, and social media, springing from issues of key relevance to contemporary society, including the War on Terror, the ‘Arab Spring’, and the climate-change debate. Employing a qualitative approach, and drawing on data which comprises both written and spoken discourses, including policy documents, political speeches, press conferences, blog entries, informational leaflets, and corporate reports, the book puts forward a unique theoretical framework, that of the Discourse of Illusion. The research draws on discourse analysis, in order to develop and implement a multi-perspective framework that allows a closer look at the intentions of the producer/actor of various discourses, power struggles within social domains, in addition to the socio-political and historical contexts which influence the individual repositories of experience that create multiple, often contesting, arguments on controversial issues, consequently giving rise to discursive illusions. Discursive Illusions in Public Discourse: Theory and practice intensively explores the discourse of illusion within multifarious dimensions of contemporary public discourses, such as: • Political Voices in Terrorism • Activist Voices in New Media • Corporate Voices in Climate Change This book will particularly appeal to researchers working within the field of discourse analysis, and more generally for students of postgraduate research and specialists in the field of language, linguistics, and media. The book can also be used as a guide for non-specialists in better understanding the complexities of public discourses, and how they shape society’s perceptions of some key social and political issues.

Author : Gerd Gigerenzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0195153723

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Adaptive Thinking by Gerd Gigerenzer Pdf

Where do new ideas come from? What is social intelligence? Why do social scientists perform mindless statistical rituals? This vital book is about rethinking rationality as adaptive thinking: to understand how minds cope with their environments, both ecological and social.Gerd Gigerenzer proposes and illustrates a bold new research program that investigates the psychology of rationality, introducing the concepts of ecological, bounded, and social rationality. His path-breaking collection takes research on thinking, social intelligence, creativity, and decision-making out of an ethereal world where the laws of logic and probability reign, and places it into our real world of human behavior and interaction. Adaptive Thinking is accessibly written for general readers with an interest in psychology, cognitive science, economics, sociology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and animal behavior. It also teaches a practical audience, such as physicians, AIDS counselors, and experts in criminal law, how to understand and communicate uncertainties and risks.

Author : Miguel de Beistegui
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226815565

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Thought Under Threat by Miguel de Beistegui Pdf

Introduction -- On stupidity -- On superstition -- On spite -- Conclusion.

Author : Daphne Patai,Wilfrido Corral
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 739 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231508698

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Theory's Empire by Daphne Patai,Wilfrido Corral Pdf

Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting but has become ossified and insular. This iconoclastic collection is an excellent companion to current anthologies of literary theory, which have embraced an uncritical stance toward Theory and its practitioners. Written by nearly fifty prominent scholars, the essays in Theory's Empire question the ideas, catchphrases, and excesses that have let Theory congeal into a predictable orthodoxy. More than just a critique, however, this collection provides readers with effective tools to redeem the study of literature, restore reason to our intellectual life, and redefine the role and place of Theory in the academy.

Author : Saul Smilansky
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191588136

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Free Will and Illusion by Saul Smilansky Pdf

Saul Smilansky presents an original treatment of the problem of free will, which lies at the heart of morality and human self-understanding. He maintains that we have most of the resources we need for a proper understanding of the problem; and the key to it is the role played by illusion. The major traditional philosophical approaches are inadequate, Smilansky argues: their partial insights need to be integrated into a hybrid view, which he calls Fundamental Dualism. Common views about justice, responsibility, human worth, and related notions are radically misguided, and the absurd looms large. We do, however, find some justification for enlightened moral views, and grounding for some of our most cherished views of human nature. The bold and perhaps disturbing claim of Free Will and Illusion is that we could not live adequately with a complete awareness of the truth about human freedom: illusion lies at the centre of the human condition. The necessity of illusion is seen to follow from the basic elements of the free will issue, helping keep our moral and psychological worlds intact. Smilansky offers the challenge of recognizing the centrality of illusion and trying to free ourselves to some extent from it; this is not only a philosophical challenge, but a moral and psychological one as well.

Author : Robert N. McCauley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199341542

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Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not by Robert N. McCauley Pdf

A comparison of the cognitive foundations of religion and science and an argument that religion is cognitively natural and that science is cognitively unnatural.

Author : James Allard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139442457

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The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics by James Allard Pdf

This book is a major contribution to the study of the philosopher F. H. Bradley, the most influential member of the nineteenth-century school of British Idealists. It offers a sustained interpretation of Bradley's Principles of Logic, explaining the problem of how it is possible for inferences to be both valid and yet have conclusions that contain new information. The author then describes how this solution provides a basis for Bradley's metaphysical view that reality is one interconnected experience and how this gives rise to a new problem of truth.

Author : Victor Cousin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6PW1

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The Philosophy of Kant by Victor Cousin Pdf

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107268333

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Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant Pdf

This entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text. Though its simple and direct style will make it suitable for all new readers of Kant, the translation displays an unprecedented philosophical and textual sophistication that will enlighten Kant scholars as well. This translation recreates as far as possible a text with the same interpretative nuances and richness as the original. The extensive editorial apparatus includes informative annotation, detailed glossaries, an index, and a large-scale general introduction in which two of the world's preeminent Kant scholars provide both a succinct summary of the structure and argument of the Critique and a detailed account of its long and complex genesis.

Author : Pierre Kerszberg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438408842

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Critique and Totality by Pierre Kerszberg Pdf

Presents an original and rigorous reading of the entire project of Kantian critique, demonstrating the essential role that cosmology plays in Kant and those he influenced.

Author : James W. Moore
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471269342

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The Internet Weather by James W. Moore Pdf

A provocative and compelling way to look at the future world of work What will work be like in the future? Futurists often try to answer this question by looking at how the Internet and technology have changed our lives, but in The Internet Weather, James Moore asserts it's far more useful-and even essential-to view the future by examining those things that don't change: the human desire for time, privacy, trust, and truth. Understanding this, Moore says, can help managers change the way they manage, and, in doing so, retain employees and improve their businesses. In this riveting book, Moore shares insights gleaned from his consulting career and imparts advice he has given clients to help them change their behavior and improve business and personal performance. He also questions assumptions about the New Economy and offers predictions about the future of work to help managers see where to focus their energy and attention.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6FC3

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The Free Church Record by Anonim Pdf