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Unlock your mind. From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast

and Slow; The Black Swan; and Stumbling

on Happiness comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries

of rational thought, decision-making, intuition, morality, willpower,

problem-solving, prediction, forecasting, unconscious behavior, and beyond. 

Edited by John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest

website"—The

Guardian), Thinking presents

original ideas by today's leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and

philosophers who are radically expanding our understanding of human thought.

• Daniel Kahneman on the power (and

  pitfalls) of human intuition and "unconscious" thinking

• Daniel Gilbert on desire,

  prediction, and why getting what we want doesn't always make us happy

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the

  limitations of statistics in guiding decision-making

• Vilayanur Ramachandran on the

  scientific underpinnings of human nature

• Simon Baron-Cohen on the

  startling effects of testosterone on the brain

• Daniel C. Dennett on decoding the

  architecture of the "normal" human mind

• Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on mental

  disorders and the crucial developmental phase of adolescence

• Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, and

  Roy Baumeister on the science of morality, ethics, and the emerging synthesis

  of evolutionary and biological thinking

• Gerd Gigerenzer on rationality

  and what informs our choices

The publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of Know This, This Idea Must Die, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes.