Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills

Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills « Series from 2012

Series from 2012

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Genres: Special Interest

Dr.

Steven Novella of the Yale School of Medicine equips you with the knowledge and skills you need to become a savvier, sharper critical thinker in your professional and personal life.

By learning how to think about thinking, you'll gain concrete lessons for doing so more critically, more intelligently, and more successfully than ever before.

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The Necessity of Thinking about Thinking

The Neuroscience of Belief

Errors of Perception

Flaws and Fabrications of Memory

Pattern Recognition - Seeing What's Not There

Our Constructed Reality

The Structure and Purpose of Argument

Logic and Logical Fallacies

Heuristics and Cognitive Biases

Poor at Probability - Our Innate Innumeracy

Toward Better Estimates of What's Probable

Culture and Mass Delusions

Philosophy and Presuppositions of Science

Science and the Supernatural

Varieties and Quality of Scientific Evidence

Great Scientific Blunders

Science versus Pseudoscience

The Many Kinds of Pseudoscience

The Trap of Grand Conspiracy Thinking

Denialism - Rejecting Science and History

Marketing, Scams, and Urban Legends

Science, Media, and Democracy

Experts and Scientific Consensus

Critical Thinking and Science in Your Life