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How to Think about Weird Things Theodore Schick

How to Think about Weird Things von Theodore Schick

How to Think about Weird Things Theodore Schick

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Zusammenfassung

Helps students think critically, using examples from the weird claims and beliefs that abound in our culture to demonstrate the evaluation of any claim. This text focuses on types of logical arguments and proofs and is useful for logic, critical thinking, philosophy of science, or any other science appreciation courses.

How to Think about Weird Things Zusammenfassung

How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age Theodore Schick

This brief, inexpensive text helps students think critically, using examples from the weird claims and beliefs that abound in our culture to demonstrate the sound evaluation of any claim. The authors focus on types of logical arguments and proofs, making How to Think about Weird Things a versatile supplement for logic, critical thinking, philosophy of science, or any other science appreciation courses.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1. Introduction: Close Encounters with the Strange The Importance of Why / Beyond Weird to The Absurd / A Weirdness Sampler 2. The Possibility of the Impossible Paradigms and the Paranormal / Logical Possibility versus Physical Impossibility / The Appeal to Ignorance / The Possibility of Esp / Theories and Things / On Knowing the Future 3. Looking for Truth in Personal Experience Seeming and Being / Perceiving: True or False? / Perceptual Constancies / The Role of Expectation / Looking for Clarity in Vagueness / The Blondlot Case / Constructing UFOs / Remembering: Do We Revise the Past? / Judging: The Habit of Unwarranted Assumptions / Against All Odds / Selective Attention / The Limits of Personal Experience 4. Relativism, Truth, and Reality We Each Create Our Own Reality / Reality is Socially Constructed / Reality is Consituted by Conceptual Schemes / Facing Reality 5. Knowledge, Belief, and Evidence Babylonian Knowledge-Acquisition Techniques / Propositional Knowledge / Reasons and Evidence / Expert Opinion / Coherence and Justification / Sources of Knowledge / The Appeal to Faith / The Appeal to Intuition / The Appeal to Mystical Experience / Astrology Revisited 6. Evidence and Inference Denying the Evidence / Confirmation Bias / The Availability Error / The Representativeness Heuristic / A Little Logic 7. Science and Its Pretenders Science and Dogma / Science and Scientism / Scientific Methodology / Confirming and Confuting Hypotheses / Criteria of Adequacy / Testability / Fruitfulness / Scope / Simplicity / Conservatism / Creationism, Evolution, and Criteria of Adequacy / Parapsychology 8. How to Assess a 'Miracle Cure' Personal Experience / The Variable Nature of Illness / The Placebo Effect / Overlooked Causes / The Doctor's Evidence / The Appeal to Tradition / The Reasons of Science / Medical Research / Types of Studies 9. Case Studies in the Extraordinary The Search Formula / Step 1: State the Claim / Step 2: Examine the Evidence for the Claim / Step 3: Consider Alternative Hypotheses / Step 4: Rate, According to the Criteria of Adequacy, Each Hypothesis Dowsing / UFO Abductions / Communicating with the Dead / Near-Death Experiences Appendix: Informal Fallacies / Unacceptable Premises / Begging the Question / False Dilemma / Irrelevant Premises / Equivocation / Composition / Division / Appeal to the Person / Genetic Fallacy / Appeal to Authority / Appeal to the Masses / Appeal to Tradition / Appeal to Ignorance / Appeal to Fear / Insufficient Premises / Hasty Generalization / Faulty Analogy / False Cause In each chapter: Study Questions Suggested Readings Notes

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GOR009178860
9780767420488
0767420489
How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age Theodore Schick
Theodore Schick
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
20010901
336
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