Common Sense And Its Cultivation / Edition 1

by E Hanbury Hankin

Overview

First published in 1999. This is Volume III of twenty-one of a series on Cognitive Psychology. Written in 1926, this book looks at what common sense is, how we might arrive at an idea or discovery by inspiration, or at a judgment or decision by intuition; when in either case we have no knowledge as to how the result is suddenly attained.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415209588
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/24/1999
Series:	International Library of Psychology Ser.
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hanbury Hankin, C S Myers

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 What is Meant by Common Sense? 1; Chapter 2 Subconscious Judgment; Chapter 3 Examples of Subconscious Judgment; Chapter 4 On Abnormal Calculating Power; Chapter 5 Calculating Ability and Intuition; Chapter 6 Musical Genius; Chapter 7 Formal Reasoning and Subconscious Judgment; Chapter 8 Experts as Directors of Commercial Companies; Chapter 9 Experts as Business Men; Chapter 10 Confidence Tricks and their Explanation; Chapter 11 The Mental Limitations of the Globe-trotter; Chapter 12 Opposition to New Ideas; Chapter 13 The Critical Faculty of The Practical Man; Chapter 14 On Educational Systems; Chapter 15 The Mental Ability of The Quakers; Chapter 16 The Teaching of Morality;