ABSTRACT

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman’s work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns of the dangers of trusting to intuition – which springs from “fast” but broad and emotional thinking – rather than engaging in the slower, harder, but surer thinking that stems from logical, deliberate decision-making. Written in a lively style that engages readers in the experiments for which Kahneman won the Nobel, Thinking, Fast and Slow’s real triumph is to force us to think about our own thinking.

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Ways in to the Text

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Influences

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The Author and the Historical Context

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Academic Context

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The Problem

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The Author’s Contribution

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Ideas

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Main Ideas

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Secondary Ideas

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Achievement

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Place in the Author’s Work

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Impact

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The First Responses

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The Evolving Debate

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Impact And Influence Today

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