{"product_id":"intuition-robbie-e-davis-floyd-editor-p-sven-arvidson-editor","title":"Intuition * Robbie Davis-Floyd (Editor), P. Sven Arvidson (Editor)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Inside Story. Interdisciplinary Perspectives. This academic collection brings together scholars from various fields, including anthropology, neuroscience, philosophy, and nursing, to explore the validity of human hunch and gut feelings, showing that intuitive knowing is a complex, structured cognitive process essential to expert decision-making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Story: Co-edited by prominent cultural anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd and philosophy professor P. Sven Arvidson, this 1997 landmark volume treats immediate insight as a profound subject of serious research. The contributors move past treating gut feelings as vague, magical superpowers or unvetted mystical accidents. Instead, they share a thorough, data-focused investigation demonstrating that split-second breakthroughs and expert instincts rely on the brain's rapid, subconscious pattern-matching systems processing years of subtle environmental observations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe anthology evaluates this inner landscape by organizing its essays across multiple professional domains. The text takes readers behind the scenes of high-stakes environments, such as busy hospital emergency rooms, scientific research laboratories, and indigenous birthing spaces, to show how professionals rely on intuitive guidance when linear logic runs out of time. The chapters chart how the human mind sifts through complex layers of somatic feeling and unspoken signals to arrive at brilliant conclusions, providing a multi-faceted look at how we know what we know.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRather than reading like a lighthearted self-help pamphlet, this textbook provides a substantial, eye-opening critique of modern society's absolute reliance on rigid, clinical rationalism. The editors gather a versatile range of perspectives to help bridge the traditional gap between analytical thought and emotional wisdom. Published as an exceptional trade paperback by Routledge, this scholarly classic remains an essential cornerstone for cognitive science, alternative psychology, and gender studies shelves, encouraging readers to respect the deep intelligence of the subconscious.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect For: Researchers, students, and professionals looking for an uncomplicated, highly detailed text to master the psychological roots of non-linear thinking; fans of paradigm-shifting cognitive writing like the works of Willis Harman, Howard Rheingold, or Joseph Chilton Pearce; and library collections expanding their technical reference sections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished 1997 by Routledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCognitive Science \/ Philosophy of Mind \/ Epistemology \/ Psychology of Decision-Making \/ Interdisciplinary Studies\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chantal Toporow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67776366739699,"sku":"202610090001ABB","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/5722\/7507\/files\/1000018842.jpg?v=1792441383","url":"https:\/\/purpleslothmedia.com\/products\/intuition-robbie-e-davis-floyd-editor-p-sven-arvidson-editor","provider":"Purple Sloth Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}