Critical Thinking : Pseudoscience and the Paranormal /: Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. (2017)
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- Book
- Title:
- Critical Thinking : Pseudoscience and the Paranormal /: Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. (2017)
- Main Title:
- Critical Thinking : Pseudoscience and the Paranormal
- Further Information:
- Note: Jonathan C. Smith.
- Authors:
- Smith, Jonathan C
- Contents:
- PART 1: INTRODUCTION 1 Critical Thinking: Your Survival Kit 2 The Paranormal Spectrum 3 What’s the Harm? Why Study These Things? PART 2: THE CRITICAL THINKER’S TOOLKIT 4 Sources 5 Logic (Bonus: The Top Four Informal Logical Fallacies) 6 Logic and language: Fallacies of Ambiguity 7 Science PART 3: ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS 8 Oddities of Nature and the World of Numbers 9 Perceptual Error and Trickery 10 Memory Errors 11 Placebo Effect 12 Sensory Phenomena, Hallucinations, and Psychiatric Conditions PART 4: PARANORMAL CHALLENGES 13 Claims of Extraordinary Cures 14 From the Paranormal Sampler: Four Claims of Consequence APPENDIX A Why Do You Believe? APPENDIX B: The Belief Justification Survey REFERENCES
- Edition:
- 2nd
- Publisher Details:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Subjects:
- 130
- Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781119029373
- Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.166202
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