Cognitive Science

Thinking, Fast and Slow 《思考，快与慢》 Daniel Kahneman Kahneman organizes decades of judgment-and-decision research as a dialogue between two cognitive systems: fast, automatic System 1, and slow… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 95

Poor Charlie's Almanack 《穷查理宝典》 Charlie Munger A collection of Munger’s speeches organized around a latticework of mental models: borrow reliable tools from psychology, mathematics, biology, and… Investment Classic Index 92

Influence 《影响力》 Robert Cialdini Cialdini distills the research on persuasion into six principles: reciprocity, commitment and consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 92

The Design of Everyday Things 《设计心理学》 Don Norman Norman explains why everyday objects confuse us, arguing that the blame usually belongs to design rather than to users, and introduces concepts such… Business Classic Index 90

Flow 《心流》 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Drawing on long interviews with artists, athletes, surgeons, and ordinary people, Csikszentmihalyi isolates a state he calls flow: clear goals… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 88

Superforecasting 《超预测》 Philip Tetlock Based on a government-funded forecasting tournament, Tetlock compares the long-run accuracy of experts against amateurs and finds a small group of… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 87

Noise 《噪声》 Daniel Kahneman The three authors separate two kinds of error in judgment: bias, a systematic tilt shared across cases, and noise, the inconsistency that arises… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 86

Misbehaving 《“错误”的行为》 Richard Thaler Thaler recounts, largely autobiographically, how behavioral economics grew from heresy into a mainstream part of the discipline. The core claim: the… Economics Classic Index 85

What Are You Doing with Your Life? 《人生中不可不想的事》 Jiddu Krishnamurti Krishnamurti circles back to the links among education, ambition, fear, and freedom, arguing that real change begins with direct observation of how… Philosophy Classic Index 84

Predictably Irrational 《怪诞行为学》 Dan Ariely Through a series of cleverly designed experiments, Ariely shows that human irrationality is not random but predictable and repeatable. From the… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 84

Mindset 《终身成长》 Carol Dweck Dweck distinguishes a fixed mindset, which treats ability as a given trait, from a growth mindset, which treats ability as developable through… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 83

Bad Beliefs 《坏信念》 Neil Levy Extreme falsehoods, a polluted information environment, and bad beliefs. Society & Civilization AZM's list

Philosophy 2012 Mind and Cosmos Thomas Nagel Mind and Cosmos 《心灵和宇宙》 Thomas Nagel Doubts about materialism and reductionism, and a case for studying mind. Philosophy AZM's list

Philosophy 2013 Just Babies Paul Bloom Just Babies 《善恶之源》 Paul Bloom What infants reveal about morality and the making of universal values. Philosophy AZM's list

Technology & Science 1967 The Naked Ape Desmond Morris The Naked Ape 《裸猿》 Desmond Morris The human being examined as just another animal. Technology & Science AZM's list

Philosophy 1781 Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason 《纯粹理性批判》 Immanuel Kant How our cognitive structure bounds reason, dividing appearance from things in themselves. Philosophy XMS's list

Philosophy 1739 A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature 《人性论》 David Hume Challenging causal necessity: causation as nothing but a habit of the mind. Philosophy XMS's list

Psychology & Cognitive Science 2013 The Psychopath Inside James Fallon The Psychopath Inside 《天生变态狂》 James Fallon A neuroscientist's self-dissection after finding he has a psychopath's brain. Psychology & Cognitive Science XMS's list

Psychology & Cognitive Science Catherine M. Pittman 重塑与情绪修复脑科学 《重塑与情绪修复脑科学》 Catherine M. Pittman The amygdala, the cortex, and brain-based ways to rewire anxiety. Psychology & Cognitive Science XMS's list

Psychology & Cognitive Science 2021 Testosterone Carole Hooven Testosterone 《睾酮》 Carole Hooven What testosterone does to male strength, aggression, and competitive drive. Psychology & Cognitive Science XMS's list

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 《错把妻子当帽子》 Oliver Sacks What remains of a person when one module of the brain fails Psychology & Cognitive Science Daily Pick

The Society of Mind 《心智社会》 Marvin Minsky Intelligence emerges from a society of mindless agents Psychology & Cognitive Science Daily Pick

Meditations on First Philosophy 《第一哲学沉思集》 René Descartes Using universal doubt as a method to find an indubitable foundation for knowledge Philosophy Daily Pick

Descartes' Error 《笛卡尔的错误》 António Damásio Emotion is not the opposite of reason but a necessary part of rational decision-making Psychology & Cognitive Science Daily Pick

De Anima (On the Soul) 《论灵魂》 Aristotle The soul is not a passenger inside the body but the very activity of being alive in an organ-bearing body Philosophy Daily Pick

Consciousness Explained 《意识的解释》 Daniel C. Dennett Consciousness is not a screen or a center in the brain but what emerges when many parallel processes compete for 'fame' Psychology & Cognitive Science Daily Pick

The Language Instinct 《语言本能》 Steven Pinker Language is not a cultural habit we are taught but a biological instinct shaped in the human brain by natural selection Psychology & Cognitive Science Daily Pick

Philosophical Investigations 《哲学研究》 Ludwig Wittgenstein Meaning lives in use, not in the head: how Wittgenstein's language games dissolved philosophy's most stubborn illusions Philosophy Daily Pick

How Emotions Are Made 《情绪》 Lisa Feldman Barrett Emotions are not triggered reactions but predictions the brain constructs: a neuroscience revolution that rewrites common sense Psychology & Cognitive Science Daily Pick

Artificial Intelligence 《AI 3.0》 Melanie Mitchell What AI can and cannot do: a cognitive scientist's sober inventory of the limits of artificial intelligence Artificial Intelligence Daily Pick

Philosophy 1966 The Order of Things Michel Foucault The Order of Things 《词与物》 Michel Foucault An archaeology of knowledge: each epoch has its unspoken episteme that determines what can be seen, named, and thought Philosophy Daily Pick

Psychology & Cognitive Science 1973 The Interpretation of Cultures Clifford Geertz The Interpretation of Cultures 《作为文化的解释》 Clifford Geertz Culture is not a hidden entity in the mind but a public web of meaning — understanding another culture means 'thick description' of its symbols and… Psychology & Cognitive Science Daily Pick