The Knowledge Illusion - The myth of individual thought and the power of collective wisdom

Name: The Knowledge Illusion
Price: 12.99 EUR
Author: Steven Sloman
ISBN: 9781509811052

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Steven Sloman, Philip Fernbach

Picador
Paru le : 06/04/2017

The human mind is both brilliant and pathetic. We have mastered fire and have stood on the moon, and yet every one of us is fundamentally ignorant, irrational... > Lire la suite

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The human mind is both brilliant and pathetic. We have mastered fire and have stood on the moon, and yet every one of us is fundamentally ignorant, irrational and prone to making simple mistakes every day. Why?'In The Knowledge Illusion, the cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach hammer another nail into the coffin of the rational individual .

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Date de parution : 06/04/2017
Editeur : Picador
ISBN : 978-1-5098-1105-2
EAN : 9781509811052
Format : ePub

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Steven Sloman is a Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences at Brown University where he has worked since 1992. The author of two books, Casual Models: How we think about the world and its alternatives and Similarity and Symbols in Human Thinking, he is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cognition. Phil Fernbach is a cognitive scientist and professor of marketing at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
He has written for and had his work profiled in numerous publications such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and BBC World News.