Thinking

Unlock your mind. From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast
and Slow; The Black Swan; and Stumbling
on Happiness comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries
of rational thought, decision-making, intuition, morality, willpower,
problem-solving, prediction, forecasting, unconscious behavior, and beyond.

Edited by John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest
website"--The
Guardian), Thinking presents
original ideas by today's leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and
philosophers who are radically expanding our understanding of human thought.

Contributors include:

• 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