Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

Perlmutter, Saul with John Campbell and Robert MacCoun

ISBN 10: 0316438103 / ISBN 13: 9780316438100

Published by Little, Brown Spark, New York, 2024

About this Item

Octavo. Clean white boards quarterbound in a white backstrip with blue lettering on the spine. Book has a very slight bumping at the head and tail of the spine. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 305 pages. Dust Jacket - has no discernable wear - jacket is clean, bright, and sharp. A lovely copy!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense
• Publisher: Little, Brown Spark, New York
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316438103
• ISBN 13: 9780316438100
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: NF
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Nonfiction

About this title

Synopsis

Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, how to use scientists’ tricks of the trade to make the best decisions and solve the hardest problems in age of uncertainty and overwhelming information.  

In our deluge of information, it’s getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? Does the research cited in that article even show what the authors claim? How can we navigate the next Thanksgiving discussion with our in-laws, who follow completely different experts on the topic of climate change?
 
In Third Millennium Thinking, a physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher introduce readers to the tools and frameworks that scientists have developed to keep from fooling themselves, to understand the world, and to make decisions. We can all borrow these trust-building techniques to tackle problems both big and small.
 
Readers will learn:

• How to achieve a ground-level understanding of the facts of the modern world
• How to chart a course through a profusion of possibilities  
• How to work together to take on the challenges we face today
• And much more

 
Using provocative thought exercises, jargon-free language, and vivid illustrations drawn from history, daily life, and scientists’ insider stories, Third Millennium Thinking offers a novel approach for readers to make sense of the nonsense.

About the Author

Saul Perlmutter is a 2011 Nobel Laureate, sharing the prize in physics for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe. He is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
  
John Campbell is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships and served as President of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
 
Robert MacCoun is a social psychologist, a professor of law at Stanford University, and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute. He received the 2019 James McKeen Cattell Award for lifetime achievement from the Association for Psychological Science.