Quote of the day
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
Philip Johnson-Laird
Born: October 12, 1936 (age 88)
Bio: Philip N. Johnson-Laird is a professor at Princeton University's Department of Psychology and author of several notable books on human cognition and the psychology of reasoning.
Known for:
- How We Reason (2006)
- Mental Models (1983)
- The Computer and the Mind (1988)
- Human and Machine Thinking (1993)
- Deduction (1991)