"tools for thought" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a way that helps someone think more effectively or efficiently. For example, "His business strategy utilizes the latest tools for thought to optimize the company's output."
He wrote more than 100 papers and articles and a classic text, "Intellectual Base of Social Work Practice: Tools for Thought in a Helping Profession" (Haworth, 1982).
His books from this period include Talking Tech: A Conversational Guide to Science and Technology (1982; with Howard Levine), Tools for Thought: The People and Ideas Behind the Next Computer Revolution (1985), and The Cognitive Connection: Thought and Language in Man and Machine (1986; with Levine).
The author of several books, including The Virtual Community, Virtual Reality, and Tools for Thought, he lives in Mill Valley, California.
One of them, inspired by Howard Rheingold's Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding takenology, will taKiernannan into the world of immersive reality.
That is not something you can get a patent on, start a company or make a fortune on," said Rheingold, author of "Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology".
It's now a decade since the author Steven Johnson wrote an inspiring New York Times essay about his own digital "tools for thought", explaining how his archive of research notes had become not just an electronic filing cabinet but an extension of his brain, a generator of ideas, even a kind of collaborator in his work.
In this manner, the matrix of peripheral (TPH1, TDO, IDO) and central (TPH2, KMO) determinants can encompass comorbid medical/psychiatric conditions with a variety of symptoms and be a tool for thought experiments.
It turned out that thoughtful advertisers love books and Thought Catalog Books has become a critical tool for the Thought Catalog sales team.
The purpose is to provide an account of the value of reflection as a tool for critical thought in relation to learning through a case study of two Continuing Professional Development CPDD) programmes in different professional contexts (nursing and teaching) and geographical locations (the United Kingdom and Singapore).
It is a huge advance for marketing departments and PR/Communications professionals who now have a viral tool for making thought leaders known.
Language was most important as a tool for thinking, a means for structuring thought.
