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Books on poor critical thinking generally, irrationality, historical critiques of poor thinking
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 6:23pm — Daniel.Curtis
- Habits by Duhigg
- Everything is Obvious: * once you know the answer Duncan Watts 2011 (how common sense fails us) *
- The Honest Truth about Dishonesty: how we lie to everyone—especially ourselves by Dan Ariely 6/2012
- Models. Behaving. Badly: Why confusing illusion with reality can lead to disaster, on Wall Street and in life by Emanuel Derman, 2011
- Perplexities of Consciousness by Eric Schwitzgebel 2011 – we’re mostly wrong about what we think we know
- Robert Kurzban, Why Everyone (else) is a hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind (2010) (may be about brain, not poor ct) *
- The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam 2010 jcls pb (many forms of “unconscious bias,” term “hidden brain” for unconscious processing; lauds reason but doesn’t discuss it much.
- Chabris, Christopher, and Daniel Simons, The Invisible Gorilla: and other ways our intuitions deceive us (2010, 300pp) – response to Gladwell? Six illusions: attention, memory, confidence equals knowledge, sequence equals causation, unleashable unconscious brain-power.
- Why we make mistakes: how we look without seeing, forget things in seconds, and are all pretty sure we are way above average by Joseph Hallinan 2010 jcls pb 200 pp.
- Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why we Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts, by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (2007). Bb 9/11?
- Being Wrong: adventures in the margin of error by Katheryn Schulz, 2010
- Ariely, Dan, The Upside of Irrationality (2010, 350pp) .
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely (2008) – mostly his own research 9] Jc 4/09
- You are what you choose: the habits of mind that really determine how we make decisions by Scott DeMarchi , 2009 *
- Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2009) *
- On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why we Believe them, what can be done by Cass Sunstein (2009)
- Un.spun: finding facts in a world of [disinformation] by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson (2007)
- Don’t believe everything you think: the 6 basic mistakes we make in thinking Thomas Kida, 2006 (what are these 6 mistakes?)
- A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives by Cordelia Fine (2006) BB 7/2011
- Why People Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer & Stephen Jay Gould 2002
- The Seven Sins of memory: how the mind forgets and remembers by Daniel Schachter, 2002
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan (1997) Jc 11/2011
- How we know what isn’t so: the fallibility of human reason in everyday life by Thomas Gilovich, 1991
- The Mismeasure of Man by Steven Jay Gould (1981) Bb 7/2012
- Your Call is Important to Us: The truth about Bullshit, by Laura Penny (2005)
- The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen (attacks amateurism on internet e.g. wikipedia)
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