Bøker av Jonathan (University of Pennsylvania) Baron

Retaining attention to the key questions addressed in the previous edition, Baron expands the fourth edition to include topics like risk, utilitarianism, Baye's theorem, and moral thinking. Tailored to the needs of students the emphasis is now on developing an understanding of the fundamental concepts in judgement and decision making.

Rationality and Intelligence develops and justifies a prescriptive theory of rational thinking in terms of utility theory and the theory of rational life plans. The prescriptive theory, buttressed by other assumptions, suggests that people generally think too little and in a way that is insufficiently critical of the initial possibilities that occur to them.