How We Think is a book written by the American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer John Dewey, originally published in 1910.
One of America's most prominent pedagogues discusses training students to think well. This educational classic covers inductive and deductive logic, concrete and abstract thinking, and many other aspects of thought training.
This book introduces readers to principles and research findings about human learning and cognition in an engaging, conversational manner.
Lynn Stuart Parramore, a senior research analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, succinctly summed up what was wrong with Lampert's reasoning, a summary that jibes with four decades of research in behavioral economics, ...
System 2 According to researchers like Steven Sloman, Jonathan St. B.T. Evans and Keith Stanovich (Evans, 2003), System 2 is generally understood to have evolved in humans much later than System 1. Most theorists assume that System 2 is ...
Some of the earliest cognitive psychologists included George Sperling (1960) and Ulrich Neisser (1967) who examined a form of memory known as sensory memory. Sensory memory is thought to be separable depending upon sensory modality.
In the 1980s, Charles Leadbeater's prescient book, In Search of Work, anticipated the growth of flexible employment. Now We-think explains how the rise of mass collaboration will affect us and the world in which we live.
The Way We Think is a landmark synthesis that exemplifies this new direction. The theory of conceptual blending is already widely known in laboratories throughout the world; this book is its definitive statement.
We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.R. Ackerley as “a fairy tale for adults.” Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry.
In How the Body Shapes the Way We Think, Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard demonstrate that thought is not independent of the body but is tightly constrained, and at the same time enabled, by it.
This book will be read with interest by those who study culture and cognition, ethnographic theory and practice, and the peoples and cultures of Africa.