Daniel Kahneman is the most respected and influential psychologist in America, if not the world. Who else in psychology has been awarded a Nobel Prize in economics while achieving major breakthroughs in the fields of cognition, decision theory, memory studies, life narratives, and happiness? Now Kahneman has produced a landmark book that deserves all the praise it is getting. I (...)
July 13, 2012
Books
Overriding Irrationality
Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel KahnemanFarrar, Straus & Giroux, $30, 512 pp.
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It sounds a wonderful book! It would be interesting to read this beside Bernard Lonergan's 'Insight', which was - come to think of it - another analysis of "thinking, fast and slow".
Bernard Lonergan contends that close attention to the processes of human cognition lead us eventually to beleive in God, as the source of the truth for which the human mind strives. He arrived at this conclusion on about page 630 of a 750 page book. Talk about slow thinking! Is there anything in Kahneman's writings which also discusses this?