1st Edition

Common Sense And Its Cultivation

By Hankin, E Hanbury Copyright 1926
    300 Pages
    by Routledge

    300 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1999. This is Volume III of twenty-one of a series on Cognitive Psychology. Written in 1926, this book looks at what common sense is, how we might arrive at an idea or discovery by inspiration, or at a judgment or decision by intuition; when in either case we have no knowledge as to how the result is suddenly attained.

    Chapter 1 What is Meant by Common Sense?; Chapter 2 Subconscious Judgment; Chapter 3 Examples of Subconscious Judgment; Chapter 4 On Abnormal Calculating Power; Chapter 5 Calculating Ability and Intuition; Chapter 6 Musical Genius; Chapter 7 Formal Reasoning and Subconscious Judgment; Chapter 8 Experts as Directors of Commercial Companies; Chapter 9 Experts as Business Men; Chapter 10 Confidence Tricks and their Explanation; Chapter 11 The Mental Limitations of the Globe-trotter; Chapter 12 Opposition to New Ideas; Chapter 13 The Critical Faculty of The Practical Man; Chapter 14 On Educational Systems; Chapter 15 The Mental Ability of The Quakers; Chapter 16 The Teaching of Morality;

    Biography

    Hanbury Hankin, C S Myers