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Smith, Jonathan C.,

Critical thinking : pseudoscience and the paranormal / Jonathan C. Smith. - Second Edition. - Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018. ©2018 - ix, 307 pages : colored illustrations ; 23 cm

Rev. ed. of: Pseudoscience and extraordinary claims of the paranormal : a critical thinker's toolkit. 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index.

Part I: Introduction
1. Critical Thinking: Your Survival Kit
2. The Paranormal Spectrum
3. What's the Harm? Why study these things? Part II: The Critical Thinker's Toolkit
4. Sources
5. Logic (Bonus: The Big Four Informal Logical Fallacies)
6. Logic and Language: Fallacies of Ambiguity
7. Science
Part III: Alternative Explanations
8. Oddities of Nature and the World of Numbers
9. Perceptual Error and Trickery
10. Memory Errors
11. The Placebo Effect
12. Sensory Phenomena, Hallucinations, and Psychiatric Conditions Part IV: Paranormal Challenges
13. Claims of Extraordinary Cures
14. From the Paranormal Sampler: Four Claims of Consequence

ISBN: 9781119029359 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Parapsychology.

Dewey Class. No.: 130 / SMI