Mindware: tools for smart thinking

by Nisbett, Richard E.

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Title Statements

Full title :Mindware : tools for smart thinking / Richard E. Nisbett.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:cop. 2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:cop. 2015.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 320 p. : : il. ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780374112677, 0374112673
oclc:ocn955734319

Thinking about thought -- Everything's an inference -- Out of context or the situation -- The rational unconscious -- The formerly dismal science -- Should you think like an economist? -- Spilt milk and free lunch -- Foiling foibles -- Coding, counting, correlation, and causality -- Odds and Ns -- Linked up -- Experiments -- Ignore the hippo -- Experiments natural and experiments proper -- Eekonomics -- Don't ask, can't tell -- Thinking, straight and curved -- Logic -- Dialecticism -- Knowing the world -- Kiss and tell -- Keeping it real -- Whom to believe.