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When can we trust what we believe - that "teams and players have winning streaks", that "flattery works", or that "the more people who agree, the more likely they are to be right" - and when are such beliefs suspect? Thomas Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. Illustrating his points with examples, and supporting them with the latest research findings, he documents the cognitive, social and motivational processes that distort our thoughts, beliefs, judgements and decisions. In a rapidly changing world, the biases and stereotypes that help us process an overload of complex information inevitably distort what we would like to believe is reality. Awareness of our propensity to make these systematic errors, Gilovich argues, is the first step to more effective analysis and action..
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Paul Ricoeur's "Fallible Man", the second work in the trilogy known collectively as "The Philosphy of the Will", continues the phenomenological interrogation of human being begun in "Freedom and Nature" and introduces the all-important concept of "fault" first thematized by Jean Nabert. The notions of fault and fallibility initially investigated in this work are treated extensively in "The Symbolism of Evil", and "Fallible Man" is essential to the understanding of Ricoeur's analysis as he moves from his earliest anthropological inquiries through his theory of symbols and, later, to his philosophy of language and metaphor. Clearly the most accessible of Ricoeur"s early texts, "Fallible Man" offers the reader insight into the nature of fallibility, an introduction to phenomenological method and a clear and vivid way into the vaster project..
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The growth of evidence-based medicine has occurred against a backdrop of health care reform, managed care, cost containment, and quality improvement. Clinicians have been urged to adopt the rigors of science while remaining true to their 'clinical judgment'. This incisive book reviews the history and conceptual origins of evidence-based practice and discusses key ethical issues that arise in clinical practice, public health, and health policy. It is essential reading for all physicians, and practitioners in epidemiology and public health..
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A Cure for Poverty?

This book provides a new explanation of why capitalism succeeds where it does, yet fails to achieve universal welfare as its most vocal proponents claim it ought to. By looking at the issue of the meta-knowledge problem-how disadvantaged people do not know how to find out what knowledge is valuable, where to acquire it, and how to finance it-the book discovers the core reason for enduring poverty of entire communities. The book starts with a core axiom that knowledge is fallible (and meta-knowledge even more so) and discusses the implications of that for ideas in welfare, education, entrepreneurship, banking, law, ethics and religion.

In its Appendix, entitled "A Rationalist's Guide to Religion" the book provides an interpretation of the world's major faiths in light of the fallibility axiom..
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Terrorists unleash lethal chemicals in a Japanese subway. Insiders steal weapons-grade uranium from a Russian Navy base. Four different American soldiers, certified as reliable for nuclear weapons duty, suffer deadly mental breakdowns at a single U. S. Navy base within a single year. As these recent events demonstrate, the intersection of high-risk technology and inevitable human error can result in the very disasters our machines are designed to prevent. Lloyd J. Dumas's terrifying book chronicles past and potential calamities to shock us out of the complacent belief that we are safe in the hands of technology. From terrorism and nuclear accidents to computer viruses and power blackouts, the entire landscape of our technological culture poses the threat of swift and sudden destruction.

This book may keep you awake at night and cause you to regard your computer with newfound distrust, but it also provides a sorely needed common sense approach to risk assessment in a world fast evolving beyond our control. Dumas presents what he calls a "calculus of catastrophe," an intelligent and aware evaluation of the disasters we can foresee and prevent, the risks that are too unlikely to worry about, and even the technologies that are too hazardous to warrant their use. Lethal Arrogance sounds an urgent wake-up call to put mind over matter and exercise human judgment over technological dominance..
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Title: Upon review, fallibility shares field.(Columns)(Column)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: September 19, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: C1

Article Type: Column

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