Daniel Kahneman

Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

Daniel Kahneman is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton., He is best known for his joint research with Amos Tversky on human judgment and decision making. Tversky did in 1996. Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013. He is the author of Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011).

Participant In:

“Fake” Knowledge: Knowing and the Illusion of Knowing

Saturday, October 14th, 2017 at 2:30pm

Past Event

A nomenclator was a slave whose duty was to accompanying his master in canvassing the streets of Classical Rome in order to recall the names of those his master encountered. Each of us is, in a way, both that ancient politician and that slave, relying on others’ memories to supply us with knowledge, and others… read more »