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Anthropologist known for his support of symbolic anthropology and his influence on the field. Considered the most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States for three decades.
Director of Strategy @BritishRedCross
Books:
Upshift (2023) @Flatironbooks (US) @WmCollinsbooks (UK)
Aid on the Edge of Chaos (2013) @OxUniPress
Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.
Amos Tversky (1937-1996), a towering figure in cognitive and mathematical psychology, devoted his professional life to the study of similarity, judgment, and decision making. He had a unique ability to master the technicalities of normative ideals and then to intuit and demonstrate experimentally their systematic violation due to the vagaries and consequences of human information processing. He created new areas of study and helped transform disciplines as varied as economics, law, medicine, political science, philosophy, and statistics. This book collects forty of Tversky's articles, selected by him in collaboration with the editor during the last months of Tversky's life. It is divided into three sections: Similarity, Judgment, and Preferences. The Preferences section is subdivided into Probabilistic Models of Choice, Choice under Risk and Uncertainty, and Contingent Preferences. Included are several articles written with his frequent collaborator, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman.
Physician, psychologist, author, inventor, and broadcaster. Coined the term "lateral thinking" and authored books on thinking, including "Six Thinking Hats." Advocate for teaching thinking as a subject in schools.