What is it about?
Sometimes our thinking is going straightforward. Our course of plan and our course of action will not change much from one moment to the next. However, our thinking sometimes makes drastically different turns, ranging from sharp turns, U turns, to even turnings into different dimensions. As a result, we are likely to see things in a totally different way. This book addresses various topics of this type of changes in scientific discovery as well as problem solving in general.
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Why is it important?
It should help us to have a better understanding of our potential and some of the common pitfalls in critical thinking.
Perspectives
Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shift is one example at the level of a research field. Many properties of mental models give us useful and down-to-earth connections to our critical thinking and situation awareness.
Dr. Chaomei Chen
Drexel University
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This page is a summary of: Turning Points, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19160-2.
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