Critical thinking : pseudoscience and the paranormal / Jonathan C. Smith.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018. ©2018Edition: Second EditionDescription: ix, 307 pages : colored illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781119029359 (pbk.)
- Pseudoscience and extraordinary claims of the paranormal
- 130 23 SMI
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Rev. ed. of: Pseudoscience and extraordinary claims of the paranormal : a critical thinker's toolkit. 2010.
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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index.
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