Search Results: Returned 13 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 13
-
-
-- Archaeology of knowledgec1972., Pantheon Books Call No: 001.2 F762a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
-
-
c1990., Encyclop dia Britannica Call No: 193.20 K167c Edition: 2nd ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Great books of the Western world (1990) Volume: 39.
-
-
c2011., General, Crown Business Call No: 153.4 W349e Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
-
-
2016., General, Allen Lane Call No: QWF 001.422 L664f Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "How to analyze who and what to trust in the age of information overload. It's becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff. How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, distortions and outright lies from reliable information? Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin outlines the many pitfalls of the information age and provides the means to spot and avoid them. Levitin groups his field guide into two categories - statistical infomation and faulty arguments -ultimately showing how science is the bedrock of critical thinking. It is easy to lie with stats and graphs as few people "take the time to look under the hood and see how they work." And, just because there's a number on something, doesn't mean that the number was arrived at properly. Logic can help to evaluate whether or not a chain of reasoning is valid. Not all sources of information are equal, and biases can distort data. Faced with a world too eager to flood us with information, the best response is to be prepared, and avoid learning a lot of things that aren't true. Daniel J. Levitin, PhD is a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, and The Organized Mind"--Provided by publisher.
-
-
2011., Prometheus Books Call No: 160 D545h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this witty, incisive guide to critical thinking, DiCarlo provides you with the tools to allow you to question beliefs and assumptions held by those who claim to know what they're talking about. This book will empower you with the ability to spot faulty reasoning and, by asking the right sorts of questions, hold people accountable.
-
-
2014., Adult, Crown Publishers Call No: 153 H189k Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "To one degree or another, we all misjudge reality. Our perception--of ourselves and the world around us--is much more malleable than we realize. This self-deception influences every major aspect of our personal and social life, including relationships, sex, politics, careers, and health. In Kidding Ourselves, Joseph Hallinan offers a nuts-and-bolts look at how this penchant shapes our everyday lives, from the medicines we take to the decisions we make. It shows, for instance, just how much the power of many modern medicines, particularly anti-depressants and painkillers, is largely in our heads. Placebos in modern-day life extend beyond hospitals, to fake thermostats and 'elevator close' buttons that don't really work... but give the perception that they do."--From publisher.
-
-
-- Tips & tools for using your brain.[2004], c2005., Adult, O'Reilly Media Call No: 612.82 S779m Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
-
-
2021., Little, Brown Spark Call No: 153.83 K12n Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Discusses why people make bad judgements and how to make better ones by reducing the influence of "noise"--variables that can cause bias in decision making--and draws on examples in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, strategy, and personnel selection.
-
-
2011., General, Doubleday Canada Call No: 153.4 K12t Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many fieldsincluding economics, medicine, and politicsbut until now, he has never brought together his many years of research and thinking in one book.In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilitiesand also the faults and biasesof fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacationeach of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.
-
-
2015., Adult, Pantheon Books Call No: 509 M685u Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A few million years ago, our ancestors came down from the trees and began to stand upright, freeing our hands to create tools and our minds to grapple with the world around us. Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a passionate and inspiring tour through the exciting history of human progress and the key events in the development of science. He presents a fascinating new look at the unique characteristics of our species that helped propel us from stone tools to written language and through the birth of chemistry, biology, and modern physics to today's technological world. Along the way he explores the cultural conditions that influenced scientific thought through the ages and the colorful personalities of some of the great philosophers, scientists, and thinkers: Galileo, who preferred painting and poetry to medicine and dropped out of university; Isaac Newton, who stuck needlelike bodkins into his eyes to better understand changes in light and color; and Antoine Lavoisier, who drank nothing but milk for two weeks to examine its effects on his body. Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, and many lesser-known but equally brilliant minds also populate these pages, each of their stories showing how much of human achievement can be attributed to the stubborn pursuit of simple questions bravely asked.
