How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age

✍ Scribed by Theodore Schick, Lewis Vaughn

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 369
Edition: 8
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

How to Think about Weird Things, is a concise and engaging text that offers students a step-by-step process by which to determine when a claim is likely to be true. Schick and Vaughn provide a course on critical thinking- emphasizing neither debunking nor advocating specific claims, but rather explaining principles of good reasoning that enable students to evaluate any claim, no matter how strange, for themselves. By teaching readers how to distinguish good reasons from bad reasons for believing a claim, this text helps students improve their decision-making abilities and provides them with a powerful weapon against all forms of hucksterism.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Contents
one Introduction: Close Encounters with the Strange
two The Possibility of the Impossible
three Arguments Good, Bad, and Weird
four Knowledge, Belief, and Evidence
five Looking for Truth in Personal Experience
six Science and Its Pretenders
seven Case Studies in the Extraordinary
eight Relativism, Truth, and Reality
Index

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