Unlock your mind. From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast

and Slow; The Black Swan; and Stumbling

on Happiness comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries

of rational thought, decision-making, intuition, morality, willpower,

problem-solving, prediction, forecasting, unconscious behavior, and beyond.

Edited by John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest

website"—The

Guardian), Thinking presents

original ideas by today's leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and

philosophers who are radically expanding our understanding of human thought.

Contributors include:

• Daniel Kahneman on the power (and
  
  pitfalls) of human intuition and "unconscious" thinking


• Daniel Gilbert on desire,
  
  prediction, and why getting what we want doesn't always make us happy


• Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the
  
  limitations of statistics in guiding decision-making


• Vilayanur Ramachandran on the
  
  scientific underpinnings of human nature


• Simon Baron-Cohen on the
  
  startling effects of testosterone on the brain


• Daniel C. Dennett on decoding the
  
  architecture of the "normal" human mind


• Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on mental
  
  disorders and the crucial developmental phase of adolescence


• Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, and
  
  Roy Baumeister on the science of morality, ethics, and the emerging synthesis
  
  of evolutionary and biological thinking


• Gerd Gigerenzer on rationality
  
  and what informs our choices