The Knowledge Illusion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Knowledge Illusion write by Steven Sloman. This book was released on 2017-03-14. The Knowledge Illusion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The Knowledge Illusion is filled with insights on how we should deal with our individual ignorance and collective wisdom.” —Steven Pinker We all think we know more than we actually do. Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don’t even know how a pen or a toilet works. How have we achieved so much despite understanding so little? Cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach argue that we survive and thrive despite our mental shortcomings because we live in a rich community of knowledge. The key to our intelligence lies in the people and things around us. We’re constantly drawing on information and expertise stored outside our heads: in our bodies, our environment, our possessions, and the community with which we interact—and usually we don’t even realize we’re doing it. The human mind is both brilliant and pathetic. We have mastered fire, created democratic institutions, stood on the moon, and sequenced our genome. And yet each of us is error prone, sometimes irrational, and often ignorant. The fundamentally communal nature of intelligence and knowledge explains why we often assume we know more than we really do, why political opinions and false beliefs are so hard to change, and why individual-oriented approaches to education and management frequently fail. But our collaborative minds also enable us to do amazing things. The Knowledge Illusion contends that true genius can be found in the ways we create intelligence using the community around us.
The Illusion of Progress
The Illusion of Progress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Illusion of Progress write by Alexander Gillespie. This book was released on 2014-05-14. The Illusion of Progress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is 'sustainable development' a charade sold to an increasingly misled public? This book presents a wide-ranging, penetrating critique of sustainability and what it actually means. The author argues that despite the rhetoric of socially and environmentally sustainable development and the ever-increasing number of legislative environmental policies, the real issues such as consumption, population growth and equity are either sidestepped or manipulated in international policy and law. Analyzing the main areas of concern - economic growth, market structure, trade, aid, debt, security and sovereignty - he shows that the entire development structure and the underpinnings of the debate are leading down quite a different path to that intended by sustainability.
The Illusion of Doubt
The Illusion of Doubt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Illusion of Doubt write by Genia Schönbaumsfeld. This book was released on 2016. The Illusion of Doubt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Illusion of Doubt confronts one of the most important questions in philosophy: what can we know? The radical sceptic's answer is 'not very much' if we cannot prove that we are not subject to (permanent) deception. This book shows that the radical sceptical problem is an illusion created by a mistaken picture of our evidential situation.
Lessons from an Optical Illusion
Lessons from an Optical Illusion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lessons from an Optical Illusion write by Edward M. Hundert. This book was released on 1995. Lessons from an Optical Illusion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a bold, modern recasting of the age-old nature-nurture debate, informed by revolutionary insights from brain science, artificial intelligence, psychiatry, linguistics, evolutionary biology, child development, ethics, and even cosmology.
Perception and Illusion
Perception and Illusion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perception and Illusion write by N.J. Wade. This book was released on 2006-03-30. Perception and Illusion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our contact with the world is through perception, and therefore the study of the process is of obvious importance and signi?cance. For much of its long history, the study of perception has been con?ned to natural- tic observation. Nonetheless, the phenomena considered worthy of note have not been those that nurture our survival—the veridical features of perception—but the oddities or departures from the common and c- monplace accuracies of perception. With the move from the natural world to the laboratory the oddities of perception multiplied, and they received ever more detailed scrutiny. My general intention is to examine the interpretations of the perc- tual process and its errors throughout history. The emphasis on errors of perception might appear to be a narrow approach, but in fact it enc- passes virtually all perceptual research from the ancients until the present. The constancies of perception have been taken for granted whereas - partures from constancies (errors or illusions) have fostered fascination.
