Clear Thinking In A Blurry World
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Clear Thinking In A Blurry World by Tim Kenyon
A ground-up Canadian text, Clear Thinking In A Blurry World offers a new way of examining the discipline of critical thinking. This text focuses on critical thinking as it applies to philosophy and cognition, rather than the typical 'formal logic lite' approach. Clear Thinking In A Blurry World includes many practical sections that are not commonly found in books in this market - material on numeracy and statistical analysis. Through this text, students will examine sources of information - from social exchanges, to science, to mainstream media - in detail, as well as the cognitive and social psychology of biases. This text aims directly at teaching, or beginning to teach, a broad set of knowledge, skills, and habits properly called critical reasoning faculties. Students using this text will enhance their ability to: recognize and classify reliable and unreliable forms of reasoning; understand reasoning about evidence, including some central concepts of statistics and probability; anticipate the cognitive and social factors that make us susceptible to particular reasoning errors; critically examine science; and popular conceptions of science-in relation to the problem of how to believe reasonable things; and, examine the media and other main sources of information about the world to see how they might be unreliable, and under what circumstances.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780176251949 |
| ISBN 10 | 0176251944 |
| Title | Clear Thinking In A Blurry World |
| Author | Tim Kenyon |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Thomson And Nelson |
| Year published | 2007-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 377 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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