A Study of Thinking is a pioneering account of how human beings
achieve a measure of rationality in spite of the constraints
imposed by bias, limited attention and memory, and the risks of
error imposed by pressures of time and ignorance. First published
in 1956 and hailed at its appearance as a groundbreaking study, it
is still read three decades later as a major contribution to our
understanding of the mind. In their insightful new introduction,
the authors relate the book to the cognitive revolution and its
handmaiden, artificial intelligence. The central theme of the work
is that the scientific study of human thinking must concentrate
upon meaning and its achievement rather than upon the behaviorists'
stimuli and responses and the presumed connections between them.
The book's point of departure is how human beings group the world
of particulars into ordered classes and categories-concepts-in
order to impose a coherent and manageable order upon that world.
But rather than relying principally on philosophical speculation to
make its point, A Study of Thinking reports dozens of experiments
to elucidate the strategies that people use in penetrating to the
deep structure of the information they encounter. This seminal
study was a major event in the cognitive revolution of the 1950s.
Reviewing it at the time, J. Robert Oppenheimer said it "has in
many ways the flavor of conviction which makes it point to the
future."
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