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Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition: A Theory of Judgment Paperback – 3 August 1990

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What happens when we think? How do people make judgments? While different theories abound―and are heatedly debated―most are based on an algorithmic model of how the brain works. Howard Margolis builds a fascinating case for a theory that thinking is based on recognizing patterns and that this process is intrinsically a-logical. Margolis gives a Darwinian account of how pattern recognition evolved to reach human cognitive abilities.

Illusions of judgment―standard anomalies where people consistently misjudge or misperceive what is logically implied or really present―are often used in cognitive science to explore the workings of the cognitive process. The explanations given for these anomalous results have generally explained only the anomaly under study and nothing more. Margolis provides a provocative and systematic analysis of these illusions, which explains why such anomalies exist and recur.

Offering empirical applications of his theory, Margolis turns to historical cases to show how an individual's cognitive repertoire―the available cognitive patterns and their relation to cues―changes or resists changes over time. Here he focuses on the change in worldview occasioned by the Copernican discovery: not only how an individual might come to see things in a radically new way, but how it is possible for that new view to spread and become the dominant one. A reanalysis of the trial of Galileo focuses on social cognition and its interactions with politics.

In challenging the prevailing paradigm for understanding how the human mind works, Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition is certain to stimulate fruitful debate.
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    *University of Chicago Press
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    3 August 1990
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A fascinating case for a theory that thinking is based on recognizing patterns and that this process is intrinsically a-logical. Margolis gives a Darwinian account of how pattern recognition evolved to reach human cognitive abilities.

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Howard Margolis is a professor in the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and in the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality and Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ *University of Chicago Press; 1st edition (3 August 1990)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 339 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226505286
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226505282
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 23.04 x 15.34 x 2.11 cm
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5.0 out of 5 stars A classic from 1987 That is very relevant today!
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The author uses insights from cognitive psychology of the 1970s to explain why our society took hundreds of years to adopt Copernicus' idea that the Earth-Moon system and the visible planets move in orbits around the sun. Political power and religious doctrine affect our capability to comprehend teality, and Galileo Galilei. who had made telescopic observations of satellites moving around the planet Jupiter, spent the end of his life under house arrest by his friend the Pope because church doctrine couild not be changed!

Very relevant to our contemporary understanding of climate change due to human use of fossil fuels. The power politics of short-term profit takes precedence and people are persuaded to "take sides" politically by commercial media propaganda!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great insight
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Parts of the book get technical and as such become a slower read.
However, the insight, ideas, and critical analysis are priceless. As a researcher of totalism, I am always on the lookout for new approaches and ideas to help people trapped within patterns of their brains (that have been placed there artificially), and this book offers new ideas and understanding that have helped me develop new approaches.

This book is worth the money as well as the time and effort to read.
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A classic on the topic, but it could be more persuasive.
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