"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Jeez I
abhor that quote/canard in the hifi context. It simply doesn't open the door to the idea that any old subjective opinion can be relied upon as a revelation.
secondhand report paraphrasing the ideas of a person whose only presence is that of a picture of him at the podium.
Now that made me laugh. That was an *interview* of
Danny Kahneman, arguably the premier scholar in cognitive bias' effect on decision-making, who may just have authored a few scientific papers (including one of the most cited *ever*) on his way to a Nobel Prize.
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2013
SAGE-CASBS Award for Social Science, 2013
National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award for “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, 2013
Cosmos Club McGoven Award in Science, 2013,
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for “Thinking Fast and Slow”, 2012
Talcott Parsons Prize, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011
Distinguished Fellows, The American Economic Association, 2011
John McGovern Award Lecture, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008 Distinguished Lifetime Contribution Award, American Psychological Association, 2007
Frank P. Ramsey Medal of the Decision Analysis Society, (joint with Amos Tversky), 2006
Thomas Schelling Prize for intellectual contribution to public policy, Kennedy School for Public Policy, Harvard University, 2006
Kampe de Feriet Award, Society for Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty, 2006
Decision Analysis Publication Award (for best paper published in 2003), Decision Analysis Society, 2005 Grawemeyer Prize in Psychology (joint with Amos Tversky), 2002
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2002
Career Achievement Award, Society for Medical Decision Making, 2002
Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, (joint with Amos Tversky), 1995
Hilgard Award for Lifetime Contribution to General Psychology, 1995
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, Society of Consumer Psychology, 1992
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, (joint with Amos Tversky), 1982
Honorary Degrees: University of Haifa (2016),Stellenbosch University (2016), Yale University (2014), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2014);Cambridge University (2013); Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2013); Carnegie-Mellon University (2011); University of Michigan (2010), Erasmus University (2009), University of Rome La Sapienza (2007), University of Alberta (2006), Universite de Paris I and Universite de Paris IV (2006), University of Milan (2005), The University of British Columbia (2004), Harvard University (2004), The University of East Anglia (2004), University of Wurzburg (2004), Ben-Gurion University (2003), The New School (2003), University of Trento (2002), University of Pennsylvania (2001).