Inevitable illusions : how mistakes of reason rule our minds /
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo,
Inevitable illusions : how mistakes of reason rule our minds / Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini ; translated by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini and Keith Botsford. - New York : Wiley, (c)1994. - xiii, 242 pages ; 23 cm.
Cognitive illusions -- Our spontaneous intuitions : angels or demons? -- A brief speleology of the mind : an easy tunnel -- Probability illusions -- Calculating the unknown or Bayes' law -- The fallacy of near certainty -- The seven deadly sins -- How to emerge from the tunnel of pessimism -- The principle of identity and the psychology of typicality -- A (rationally) optimistic conclusion -- A super-tunnel -- Mental tunnels : a brief history of discovery -- Why cognitive illusions are here to stay : a reply to recent critiques -- Tunnel exits.
94012759
Reasoning (Psychology)
Prejudices.
Illusion (Philosophy)
Thought and thinking.
BF442 / .I548 1994 BF442
Inevitable illusions : how mistakes of reason rule our minds / Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini ; translated by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini and Keith Botsford. - New York : Wiley, (c)1994. - xiii, 242 pages ; 23 cm.
Cognitive illusions -- Our spontaneous intuitions : angels or demons? -- A brief speleology of the mind : an easy tunnel -- Probability illusions -- Calculating the unknown or Bayes' law -- The fallacy of near certainty -- The seven deadly sins -- How to emerge from the tunnel of pessimism -- The principle of identity and the psychology of typicality -- A (rationally) optimistic conclusion -- A super-tunnel -- Mental tunnels : a brief history of discovery -- Why cognitive illusions are here to stay : a reply to recent critiques -- Tunnel exits.
94012759
Reasoning (Psychology)
Prejudices.
Illusion (Philosophy)
Thought and thinking.
BF442 / .I548 1994 BF442