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Publisher
Thomson/Wadsworth
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
The author both explains the uses of good arguments, and provides the theoretical base for determining which arguments are good, and which are bad. She describes inductively strong and deductively valid arguments, as well as analogies and fallacies, supported with numerous examples and exercises. This edition features new material discussing the role of emotion in evaluating arguments, the principle of charity in interpretation, the importance of...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Discusses why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones by reducing the influence of "noise"--variables that can cause bias in decision making--and draws on examples in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, strategy, and personnel selection.
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Publisher
Currency, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
[This book] is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume-- but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications such as The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America's culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide...
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Language
English
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We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process -- especially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. Daniel J. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports revealing the ways lying weasels can use them. It's becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff. How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, distortions,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A psychology expert offers a tool kit for thinking more clearly and making better decisions, explaining how to reframe problems using simplified concepts from science and statistics, including the law of large numbers, statistical regression, cost-benefit analysis, and causation and correlation.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Expanding upon his viral TEDx Talk, psychology professor and social scientist John V. Petrocelli reveals the critical thinking habits you can develop to recognize and combat pervasive false information that harms society in The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit. Bullshit is the foundation of contaminated thinking and bad decisions leading to health consequences, financial losses, legal consequences, broken relationships, and wasted time...
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Language
English
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Monkey has a big box, which he tells Cake has a cat inside, but only when the box is closed; Cake suggest that maybe it is a dinosaur instead, and the two friends puzzle over how they can solve the problem of finding out what is in the box, if it is always empty when opened.
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Language
English
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"In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of contemporary life. Cheng is a mathematician, so she knows how to make an airtight argument. But even for her, logic sometimes falls prey to emotion, which is why she still fears flying and eats more cookies than she should. If a mathematician can't...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan isn't one to avoid arguments. He relishes them, as the lifeblood of democracy and the only surefire way to establish the truth. Arguments help us solve problems, uncover new ideas we might not have considered, and nudge our disagreements toward mutual understanding. A good argument, made in good faith, has intrinsic value--and can also simply be fun. Arguments are everywhere--and especially given the fierce debates we're all embroiled...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Lectures by Dr. David Zarefsky, Professor of Argumentation and Debate and Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, cover the history of rhetoric and debate as well as analysis of different types of arguments in various situations.
Author
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"For more than 70 years, Barron's experts have been helping students surpass their expectations on standardized tests. This is the only book you'll need to help practice for mechanical aptitude and spacial ability tests,"--page [4] of cover.
19) Cartesius
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Italiano
Description
René Descartes was known as the "Father of modern philosophy." Depicts the seventeenth-century thinker's agonized struggle to assert the primacy of reason. An intimate, psychological study of obsession and existential crisis.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The physical changes of puberty are accompanied by changes in adolescent thinking and moral reasoning. As adolescent thinking becomes more logical and abstract, it is limited by adolescent egocentrism. Additionally, adolescent thinking is enhanced or discouraged by the schooling to which they are exposed. Schools that foster adolescent thinking and learning provide a variety of academic experiences and encourage complex interactions. Adolescents are...
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