# The Knowledge Illusion

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-sloman/the-knowledge-illusion/9781509813087

![The Knowledge Illusion](https://quivercdn.com/covers/pan/steven-sloman/the-knowledge-illusion_978-15-0981-308-7.jpg?v=2026-05-21%2015%3A09%3A39)

- Book: [The Knowledge Illusion](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-sloman/the-knowledge-illusion) ([The Knowledge Illusion.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-sloman/the-knowledge-illusion.md))
- Authors: [Steven Sloman](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-sloman), [Philip Fernbach](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-fernbach)
- Publisher: Pan
- ISBN: 978-15-0981-308-7
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2018-08-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In The Knowledge Illusion , the cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach hammer another nail into the coffin of the rational individual . . . positing that not just rationality but the very idea of individual thinking is a myth.