Third Millennium Thinking
Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2024
Summary
Out now: a definitive guide to thinking clearly in a world full of overwhelming information
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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? How can we navigate the next uncomfortable discussion with family members, who follow completely different experts on climate?
In Third Millen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399705493 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399705490 |
| Author: | Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell, Robert MacCoun |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 540g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 160mm x 34mm |
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Critics Review
‘A model of clear thinking, and a terrific discussion of how to use logic and evidence to solve the hardest problems. This might just be the cure for what ails us.’ Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University, and author of Decisions About Decisions
‘If our species is to stagger through another millennium, we need to get better at thinking about how we think-and conducting high-stakes debates more intelligently. This book lays out, with superb clarity, the path forward.’ Philip E. Tetlock, author of Superforecasting
‘A physicist, a philosopher, and a psychologist walk into a book, and mix an inviting cocktail about how to think through big problems and make effective decisions in a Third Millennium age of overwhelming, complex, and contradictory information. A must read for anyone who needs to make expert judgments without being experts themselves.’ David Dunning, Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and discoverer of the Dunning-Kruger Effect
About The Author
Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter (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 professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is also the leader of the International Supernova Cosmology Project, director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, and executive director of the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics.
Robert MacCoun (Author)
Robert MacCoun is a social psychologist and public policy analyst who is currently James and Patricia Kowal Professor of Law at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. His previous book with Peter Reuter, Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places is considered a landmark scholarly analysis of the drug legalization debate. His publications and expert testimony on military unit cohesion were influential in the 1993 and 2010 policy debates about allowing gay and lesbian people to serve openly in the US military.
John Campbell (Author)
John Campbell is Willis S. and Marion Slusser 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. Campbell is the author of Past, Space and Self (1994), Reference and Consciousness (2002), Berkeley’s Puzzle, co-authored with Quassim Cassam (2012) and Causation in Psychology (2020).
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