The first conspiracy theories about September 11 began to emerge while the wreckage was still smouldering. Today, 10 years later, hundreds of books and thousands of web pages are devoted to the idea that the U.S. government encouraged, permitted, or actually carried out the attacks. This in-depth in[...]
Einstein said that "the whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." David Klahr suggests that we now know enough about cognition -- and hence about everyday thinking -- to advance our understanding of scientific thinking. In this book he sets out to describe the cogniti[...]