In a complex and uncertain world, humans and animals make decisions under the constraints of limited knowledge, resources, and time. Yet models of rational decision making in economics, cognitive science, biology, and other fields largely ignore these real constraints and instead assume agents with perfect information and unlimited time. About forty years ago, Herbert Simon cha...(展开全部)

Where do new ideas come from? What is social intelligence? Why do social scientists perform mindless statistical rituals? This vital book is about rethinking rationality as adaptive thinking: to understand how minds cope with their environments, both ecological and social. Gerd Gigerenzer proposes and illustrates a bold new research program that investigates the psychology of r...(展开全部)

Bounded Meaning investigates the dynamics of interpretation: how and why the interpretation of the building blocks of human language is sensitive, not just to the context in which the expression is used, but also to the expression's linguistic environment--in other words, how and why interpretation depends not just on global information, but also on local information. Matthew M...(展开全部)

An important division in the human mind is between perception and reasoning. Perceptual experiences are conscious, but much of our reasoning is unconscious. Reasoning can be better or worse, but perception is considered beyond reproach. We reason from information that we have already, but perception is a means of getting new information. The Rationality of Perception argues tha...(展开全部)

Ralph Wedgwood gives a general account of the concept of rationality. The Value of Rationality is designed as the first instalment of a trilogy - to be followed by accounts of the requirements of rationality that apply specifically to beliefs and choices. The central claim of the book is that rationality is a normative concept. This claim is defended against some recent objecti...(展开全部)

In Rationality and the Reflective Mind, Keith Stanovich attempts to resolve the Great Rationality Debate in cognitive science--the debate about how much irrationality to ascribe to human cognition. He shows how the insights of dual-process theory and evolutionary psychology can be combined to explain why humans are sometimes irrational even though they possess remarkably adapti...(展开全部)

How do people make decisions when time is limited, information unreliable, and the future uncertain? Based on the work of Nobel laureate Herbert Simon and with the help of colleagues around the world, the Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) Group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin has developed a research program on simple heuristics, also known as fa...(展开全部)

罗伯特·海涅曼(RobertA．Heineman)，美国阿尔弗雷德大学政治学教授，曾经被选为联邦政府、州政府和地方政府的幕僚。他的主要著作有《威权与自由主义传统》(1984，1994)、《政治学导论》(1996)。 威廉·布卢姆(William T.Blutun)。美国罗彻斯特大学政治学名誉退休教授。他在芝加哥大学获得博士学位，主要著作包括《政治系统理论》(1965，1972，1978)、《建立一个奥地利国家》(1973)、《意识形态和态度》(1974)以及《暴力还是自由》(1984)。 史蒂文·彼得森(Steven A．Peterson)，美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学(哈里斯堡)公共事务学院院长、政治与公共事务学院教授。曾任纽约州政治学学会会长和东北部政治学学会会长。他在《政治学》、《美国政治学》《西部政治季刊》和《政府制度》上发表多篇论...(展开全部)

提摩西•威尔逊（Timothy D.Wilson），世界著名的社会心理学大师和畅销书作家，同时也是美国弗吉尼亚大学最受学生欢迎的心理学教授，研究领域包括潜意识心理、内省、情绪预测以及幸福等，他参与主编的《社会心理学》教材，是该领域最畅销的心理学经典著作之一。2001年，他荣获高校杰出教学奖(Outstanding Teaching Award)；2009年，被美国人文与科学院（American Academy of Arts and Sciences）聘用；2010年，荣获弗吉尼亚大学杰出科学家奖（Distinguished Scientist Award）。

"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments, feelings, and motives that introspection may nev...(展开全部)