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Pages: 405
Authors: Hugo Mercier
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-17 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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“Brilliant...Timely and necessary.” —Financial Times “Especially timely as we struggle to make sense of how it is that individuals and communities persi
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Pages: 384
Authors: Hugo Mercier
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-22 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Why people are not as gullible as we think Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe—and argues that we're pretty
The Enigma of Reason
Language: en
Pages: 408
Authors: Hugo Mercier
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-17 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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If reason is so useful and reliable, why didn’t it evolve in other animals and why do humans produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense? Hugo Mercier and Da
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Corey Robin
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The Enigma of Clarence Thomas is a groundbreaking revisionist take on the Supreme Court justice everyone knows about but no one knows. Most people can tell you
How We Reason
Language: en
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Authors: Philip Johnson-Laird
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-23 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Good reasoning can lead to success; bad reasoning can lead to catastrophe. Yet, it's not obvious how we reason, and why we make mistakes - so much of our mental