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ISE How to Think About Weird Things

Critical Thinking for a New Age

Theodore Schick Lewis Vaughn

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McGraw-Hill Education
26 February 2019
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.  

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Imprint:   McGraw-Hill Education
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   8th edition
Dimensions:   Height: 226mm,  Width: 150mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   386g
ISBN:   9781260548075
ISBN 10:   1260548074
Pages:   370
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Replaced By:   1266219250
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking For a New Age, 8e CHAPTER 1: Introduction: Close Encounters with the Strange CHAPTER 2: The Possibility of the Impossible CHAPTER 3: Arguments Good, Bad, and Weird CHAPTER 4: Knowledge, Belief, and Evidence CHAPTER 5: Looking for Truth in Personal Experience CHAPTER 6: Science and Its Pretenders CHAPTER 7: Case Studies in the Extraordinary CHAPTER 8: Relativism, Truth, and Reality

Theodore Schick received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Brown University. He is currently professor of philosophy at Muhlenberg College where he has served as Director of Academic Computing, Director of Freshman Seminars, Director of the Muhlenberg Scholars Program, and Chair of the Philosophy Department. He is the author of Doing Philosophy: An Introduction through Thought Experiments, the editor of The Philosophy of Science: From Positivism to Post-modernism, and has published articles in several fields of philosophy including: philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, meta-philosophy, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics. He has also contributed to a number of volumes in Open Courts Philosophy and Popular Culture series as well as Blackwells Philosophy for Everyone series. Lewis Vaughn is the author of numerous textbooks in philosophy, critical thinking, and ethics including The Power of Critical Thinking (2019); Concise Guide to Critical Thinking (2017); Philosophy Here and Now (2019); Living Philosophy: A Historical Introduction to Philosophical Ideas (2018); Doing Ethics: Moral Reasoning, Theory, and Contemporary Issues (2019); Beginning Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy (2015); Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases (2017); and Writing Philosophy (2018).

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