Admirers of Freud and James may hope that the time may come when they will stand together with Kahneman as three great explorers of the human psyche, Freud and James as explorers of our deeper emotions, Kahneman as the explorer of our more humdrum cognitive processes. But that time has not yet come.
This is the meat of his conclusion. I think Tetronian is right that the author enjoys the literary thinkers more than the scientific ones, even though those literary thinkers are likely to be relying heavily on System One.
Before that, the superficial parallels he draws between James and Kahneman are vexing in their superficiality.
This is the meat of his conclusion. I think Tetronian is right that the author enjoys the literary thinkers more than the scientific ones, even though those literary thinkers are likely to be relying heavily on System One.
Before that, the superficial parallels he draws between James and Kahneman are vexing in their superficiality.