Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason RuleOur Minds
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MASSIMO PIATTELLI-PALMARINI, Ph.D., is a Principal Research Associate of the Center for Cognitive Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Director of the Department of Cognitive Science at the Institute of San Raffaele in Milan, Italy. His books The Will to Study and the Italian edition of Inevitable Illusions were international bestsellers.

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Cognitive Illusions.

Our Spontaneous Intuitions: Angels or Demons?.

A Brief Speleology of the Mind: An Easy Tunnel.

Probability Illusions.

Calculating the Unknown, or Bayes' Law.

The Fallacy of Near Certainty.

The Seven Deadly Sins.

How to Emerge from the Tunnel of Pessimism.

The Principle of Identity and the Psychology of Typicality.

A (Rationally) Optimistic Conclusion.

A Super-Tunnel.

Appendices.

Tunnel Exits.

Sources.

Suggested Reading.

Index.
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