Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds

Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo

ISBN 10: 0471581267 / ISBN 13: 9780471581260

Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York, New York, 1994

About this Item

Some light rubbing and edgewear, dust jacket has yellowed slightly. Text is clean and tight in binding, no ownership or other markings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471581267
• ISBN 13: 9780471581260
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good / with Protective Cover

About this title

Synopsis

"Fascinating and insightful. . . . I cannot recall a book that has made me think more about the nature of thinking." -- Richard C. Lewontin

Harvard University

Everyone knows that optical illusions trick us because of the way we see. Now scientists have discovered that cognitive illusions, a set of biases deeply embedded in the human mind, can actually distort the way we think.

In Inevitable Illusions, distinguished cognitive researcher Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini takes us on a provocative, challenging, and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the games our minds play. He opens the doors onto the newly charted realm of the cognitive unconscious to reveal the full range of illusions, showing how they inhibit our ability to reason--no matter what our educational background or IQ. Inevitable Illusions is stimulating, eye-opening food for thought.

About the Author

MASSIMO PIATTELLI-PALMARINI, PhD, (Milan, Italy) is Director of the Department of Cognitive Science at the Institute San Raffaele in Milan, Italy, and a research associate of the Center for Cognitive Science at MIT.