Thinking, John Brockman
Thinking, John Brockman
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Thinking
The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction

Author: John Brockman

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Unabridged: 13 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/14/2015

Synopsis

Edited by John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, Thinking presents original ideas by today's leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who are radically expanding our understanding of human thought.

—Daniel Kahneman on the power (and pitfalls) of human intuition and "unconscious" thinking.

—Daniel Gilbert on desire, prediction, and why getting what we want doesn't always make us happy.

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the limitations of statistics in guiding decision-making.

—Vilayanur Ramachandran on the scientific underpinnings of human nature.

—Simon Baron-Cohen on the startling effects of testosterone on the brain.

—Daniel C. Dennett on decoding the architecture of the "normal" human mind.

—Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on mental disorders and the crucial developmental phase of adolescence.

—Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, and Roy Baumeister on the science of morality, ethics, and the emerging synthesis of evolutionary and biological thinking.

—Gerd Gigerenzer on rationality and what informs our choices.

About John Brockman

The founder and publisher of the influential online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of This Will Make You Smarter, What We Believe but Cannot Prove, What Is Your Dangerous Idea?, and other volumes. He is also the CEO of the literary agency Brockman, Inc. John lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on October 28, 2012

This Will Make You Smarter is a challenging book that leaves you with a lot to think about. The essays are short — some shorter than a single page — that cover interesting scientific concepts, new and old ideas to help us think about the world. The founder and publisher of the online science salon, E......more

Goodreads review by Graham on June 16, 2013

The Edge.org question of 2011 was "What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?" Many of the world's most famous thinkers responded to it, and their responses are compiled in this book in one-to-four-page essays organized thematically. It's somewhat ironic that although the bo......more

Goodreads review by Pvw on August 17, 2013

Edge is an organisation that promotes the spreading of cultural and scientific knowledge to a general public. Every year they pose a general philosophical question and publish some of the best answers by prominent intellectuals. This book contains the answers to the proposition: "Which new scientifi......more

Goodreads review by Ben on January 13, 2013

It didn't. No, in all seriousness, I think this book would have been quite good for me about five years ago - many of the cognitive tools they bring up are indeed very useful. But this book suffers from having too many authors - so for one thing there is quite a lot of redundancy, as multiple people......more

Goodreads review by Mike on July 30, 2012

Each essay is only 3-5 pages, making this a great book to pick up when you have a few minutes of free time and want a little bit of intellectual stimulation. That said, some essays were great and thought-provoking, but others were painfully dull and a chore to get through.......more

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