Theodore Schick

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

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This concise and engaging text teaches the basic principles of good reasoning through an examination of widely held beliefs about the paranormal, the supernatural, and the mysterious. By explaining what distinguishes knowledge from opinion, science from pseudoscience, and evidence from hearsay, How to Think about Weird Things helps the reader develop the skills needed to tell the true from the false and the reasonable from the unreasonable.

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Weitere Autoren: Vaughn, Lewis

ISBN: 978-1-259-09551-1
EAN: 9781259095511
Produktnummer: 17682611
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Masse: H16.2 cm x B23.1 cm x D1.1 cm 414 g
Auflage: 7 ed
Gewicht: 414
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

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.