The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room

The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room « Series from 2023

Series from 2023

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The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room, taught by award-winning Professor Patrick Grim of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, arms you against the perils of bad thinking and supplies you with an arsenal of strategies to help you be more creative, logical, inventive, realistic, and rational in all aspects of your daily life.

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How We Think and How to Think Better

Cool Rationality and Hot Thought

The Strategy of Visualization

Visualizing Concepts and Propositions

The Power of Thought Experiments

Thinking like Aristotle

Ironclad, Airtight Validity

Thinking outside the Box

The Flow of Argument

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart

Why We Make Misteaks

Rational Discussion in a Polarized Context

Rhetoric versus Rationality

Bogus Arguments and How to Defuse Them

The Great Debate

Outwitting the Advertiser

Putting a Spin on Statistics

Poker, Probability, and Everyday Life

Decisions, Decisions

Thinking Scientifically

Put It to the Test—Beautiful Experiments

Game Theory and Beyond

Thinking with Models

Lessons from the Great Thinkers