Table of Contents
1 The Normal Well-Tempered Mind Daniel C. Dennett 1
2 How to Win at Forecasting Philip Tetlock Daniel Kahneman 18
3 Smart Heuristics Gerd Gigerenzer John Brockman 39
4 Affective Forecasting … Or … The Big Wombassa: What You Think You're Going to Get, and What You Don't Get, When You Get What You Want Daniel Gilbert John Brockman 55
5 Adventures in Behavioral Neurology-Or-What Neurology Can Tell Us About Human Nature Vilayanur Ramachandran 69
6 The Social Psychological Narrative-Or-What is Social Psychology, Anyway? Timothy D. Wilson Daniel Gilbert 99
7 The Adolescent Brain Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Simon Baron-Cohen 115
8 Essentialism Bruce Hood 132
9 Testosterone on My Mind and in My Brain Simon Baron-Cohen John Brockman 156
10 Insight Gary Klein Daniel Kahneman 193
11 A Sense of Cleanliness Simone Schnall 215
12 The Fourth Quadrant: A Map of the Limits of Statistics Nassim Nicholas Taleb John Brockman 225
13 Life is the Way the Animal is in the World Alva Noë 252
14 Recursion and Human Thought: Why the Pirahã Don't Have Numbers Daniel L. Everett 269
15 The New Science of Morality Jonathan Haidt Joshua Greene Sam Harris Roy Baumeister Paul Bloom David Pizarro Joshua Knobe John Brockman 292
16 The Marvels and the Flaws of Intuitive Thinking Daniel Kahneman 386
Index 411