Rationality
Subtitle: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Publisher: Viking
Published: Sep 28, 2021
Place of publication: New York, USA
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780525561996
Copyright date: 2021
First sentence: Homo sapiens means wise hominin, and in many ways we have earned the specific epithet of our Linnaean binomial.
Notes: Source title: Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Table of contents: title: Contents
pagenum: xi; title: Preface
pagenum: xiii; label: 1
title: How Rational an Animal?
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Rationality and Irrationality
pagenum: 35; label: 3
title: Logic and Critical Thinking
pagenum: 73; label: 4
title: Probability and Randomness
pagenum: 111; label: 5
title: Beliefs and Evidence (Bayesian Reasoning)
pagenum: 149; label: 6
title: Risk and Reward (Rational Choice and Expected Utility)
pagenum: 173; label: 7
title: Hits and False Alarms (Signal Detection and Statistical Decision Theory)
pagenum: 201; label: 8
title: Self and Others (Game Theory)
pagenum: 227; label: 9
title: Correlation and Causation
pagenum: 245; label: 10
title: What’s Wrong with People?
pagenum: 283; label: 11
title: Why Rationality Matters
pagenum: 319; title: Notes
pagenum: 341; title: References
pagenum: 361; title: Index of Biases and Fallacies
pagenum: 389; title: Index
pagenum: 391