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A list of key readings about Thinking.
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Books

  • Sloman S, Fernbach P. (2017) The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone.. Riverhead Books, New York. Ebook ISBN 9780399184345. | Amazon Look Inside | Google Books Preview
    • From Amazon: "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 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 individually oriented approaches to education and management frequently fail. But our collaborative minds also enable us to do amazing things. This book contends that true genius can be found in the ways we create intelligence using the world around us."
  • Kahneman D. (2011) Thnking, Fast and Slow. MacMillan. ISBN 9781429969352. | Google Books preview.
    • From publisher webpage: 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 vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.
  • MeIser D. (2004) The Act of Thinking. “A Bradford book." ISBN 0-262-13446-2. | Google Books preview.
    • From publisher webpage: Derek Melser argues that the core assumption of both folk psychology and cognitive science—that thinking goes on in the head—is mistaken. Melser argues that thinking is not an intracranial process of any kind, mental or neural, but is rather a learned action of the person.