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Beyond Uncertainty
"A fascinating, well-documented biography." --New York Times Book Review "A monumental effort." --New York Review of Books "An excellent piece of science writing...Cassidy does …
Mapping Uncertainty in Medicine: What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do?
Uncertainty is the norm in medical practice, yet often gives rise to distress in clinicians, who fear they will make shameful or guilt inducing errors. This book offers a succinct …
The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World
"Quite possibly the best popular science book I've ever read" (Popular Science) shows how the tools that enabled us to overcome the uncertainty of the weather will enable us to …
Judgment under Uncertainty
The 35 chapters in this book describe various judgmental heuristics and the biases they produce.
Climate Uncertainty and Risk
World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in …
The Age of Uncertainty
The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, …
Logic and Uncertainty in the Human Mind
David E. Over is a leading cognitive scientist and, with his firm grounding in philosophical logic, he also exerts a powerful influence on the psychology of reasoning. He is …
Uncertainty: Individual Problems and Public Solutions
Embracing Uncertainty: Breakthrough Methods for Achieving Peace of Mind When Facing the Unknown
From the multimillion bestselling author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway comes a powerful and healing book designed to offer a safety net in a world of never-ending change. It …
Clinical Uncertainty in Primary Care
The Power of ColleaguesWhat happens when primary care clinicians meet together on set aside time in their practice settings to talk about their own patients? .....Complimenting …
An Analysis of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's Judgment under Uncertainty
Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman’s 1974 paper ‘Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases’ is a landmark in the history of psychology. Though a mere seven pages long, it …
Care, Uncertainty and Intergenerational Ethics
Our capacity to reshape the future has never been more powerful. Yet our ability to foresee the consequences of what we do has not kept pace. Is the idea that we have …