Background
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo was born on April 29, 1942 in Rome. Son of Alberto Piattelli and Marcella Bosco-Palmarini.
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"Fascinating and insightful...I cannot recall a book that has made me think more about the nature of thinking." -- Richard C. Lewontin Harvard University Everyone knows that optical illusions trick us because of the way we see. Now scientists have discovered that cognitive illusions, a set of biases deeply embedded in the human mind, can actually distort the way we think. In Inevitable Illusions, distinguished cognitive researcher Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini takes us on a provocative, challenging, and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the games our minds play. He opens the doors onto the newly charted realm of the cognitive unconscious to reveal the full range of illusions, showing how they inhibit our ability to reason--no matter what our educational background or IQ. Inevitable Illusions is stimulating, eye-opening food for thought.
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Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo was born on April 29, 1942 in Rome. Son of Alberto Piattelli and Marcella Bosco-Palmarini.
Doctor in Physics, University Rome (Italy), 1968.
Assistant professor physical chemistry, U. Rome, Rome, 1968-1970; researcher, Institute Pasteur, Paris, 1970-1974; lecturer, École des Hautes Études, Paris, 1974-1979; director, Center Royaumont pour une Science de L'Homme, Paris, 1975-1979; director, Center di Filosofia della Science, Florence, Italy, 1980-1985; principal research scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1985-1993; director department cognitive science, Institute San Raffaele, Milan, since 1993.
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Science counselor to president of senate, Italy, since 1994.
Married Elisabeth Michahelles, November 24, 1963 (divorced October 1969). 1 child, Simone.