Theodore Schick

How to Think About Weird Things

Critical Thinking for a New Age

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This brief, affordable text helps students to think critically, using examples from the weird claims and beliefs that abound in our culture to demonstrate the sound evaluation of any claim. It explains step-by-step how to sort through reasons, evaluate evidence, and tell when a claim (no matter how strange) is likely to be true. The emphasis is neither on debunking nor on advocating specific assertions, but on explaining principles of critical thinking that enable readers to evaluate claims for themselves. The authors focus on types of logical arguments and proofs, making How to Think about Weird Things a versatile supplement for logic, criti… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Vaughn, Lewis

ISBN: 978-0-07-353577-7
EAN: 9780073535777
Produktnummer: 33556771
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Masse: H23.0 cm x B16.3 cm x D1.3 cm 450 g
Auflage: 6 Rev ed
Abbildungen: black & white illustrations
Gewicht: 450
Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

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.