Good thinking seven powerful ideas that influence the way we think
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 di...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798252306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Good Thinking; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; ONE: Introduction; TWO: Game Theory; The Basics of Game Theory; Game Theory and the Battle of the Sexes; Game Theory and Avoiding Mary's Inappropriate Co-Worker; Game Theory and Deciding Whether or Not to Trust; Experimental Economics: What Do People Actually Do?; Differences in Power and Status Influence How Fairly We Treat Others; Neuroscience Makes It Clearer Why We Behave the Way We Do; The Evolution of Cooperation; THREE: Rational Choice; How the "Big Boys" Think about Decision Making
- How to Be More BayesianWhen We Are Not Bayesian; How the Question Is Framed Determines Whether You Get It Right or Wrong; Your Brain on Decision Making; Decision Making in the Real World: The Economic Meltdown of 2008; FOUR: Moral Decision Making; Church and State Weigh in on Morality; What David Hume Had to Say; What Immanuel Kant Had to Say; What Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill Had to Say; What Seems Right to Us: The Psychology of Moral Judgment; Yes, but What Is Morality for?; FIVE: The Game of Logic; A Journey into Logic Land; Just How Logical Are People, Really?
- What to Do When the World (or Your Mind) ChangesSIX: What Causes What?; The Paradox of Causality; How the Experts Decide What Causes What; How Your Brain Decides What Causes What; What Is Necessary? What Is Sufficient?; How What You Believe Influences How You Decide; The Causal Paradox Revisited: What Infants Told Us; SEVEN: Hypothesis Testing; Confirmation Bias: Tell Me I'm Right; A More Realistic Study of Confirmation Bias; When Your Brain Is Biased; Science: How We Got Here; Prove I'm Wrong, or Give Me the Most Bang for the Buck?; Ok, Show Me I'm Wrong; Stopgaps and Backup Systems
- EIGHT: Problem SolvingWhen Problems Are Well-Defined; When Problems Are Not So Well-Defined; Finding the Way There; Artificial Intelligence: Machines That Think; How Experts Solve Problems; Insight and Genius; NINE: Analogical Reasoning; Analogy as It Should Be Done; Analogy: How It Is Actually Done; Why Analogy Is the Core of Cognition; References; Index
