On Being Certain by Burton, Robert A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Table of Contents Preface 1 - The Feeling of Knowing 2 - How Do We Know What We Know?

Out of Sight Is Not Out of Mind The Challenger Study Cognitive Dissonance

3 - Conviction Isn’t a Choice

Neurotheology Voices from the Limbic System

4 - The Classification of Mental States 5 - Neural Networks 6 - Modularity and Emergence

Organizing Complexity Synesthesia Private Islands

7 - When Does a Thought Begin?

Timing, or the Chicken and the Newly Hatched Idea

8 - Perceptual Thoughts: A Further Clarification

Episodic Versus Semantic Memory

9 - The Pleasure of Your Thoughts

The Pleasure Principle I Can’t Go On, I Must Go On The Big What-if Double-Edged Single-Mindedness

10 - Genes and Thought

Alice in Genetic Wonderland, or Through Hyperbole’s Looking Glass Why I Can’t Play Poker

11 - Sensational Thoughts

12 - The Twin Pillars of Certainty: Reason and Objectivity

Abandoning the Idea of Rationality Is Unthinkable Popular Psychology and the Myth of the Rational Mind Complementary and Alternative Medicine

13 - Faith

Welcome to the F Word Tolstoy and the Biology of Despair Caution: Deconstruction Zone Ahead A Practical Suggestion?

14 - Mind Speculations

15 - Final Thoughts

A Brief Recap Some Ideas Are More Equal Than Others The Juggling Act

Also by Robert A. Burton, M.D. Notes Acknowledgments Index Copyright Page