10 mars 2012

Critical Thinking

Jag hittade just en intressant bok:


Noella, Steven (2012) Your deceptive Mind. A scientific Guide to Critical Thinking. The Teaching Company: The Great Courses.


Mycket, mycket bra. Innehåller ett antal lektioner som även finns som ljudbok och videofilmer:

Lecture 1: The Necessity of Thinking about Thinking

Lecture 2: The Neuroscience of Belief

Lecture 3: Errors of Perception

Lecture 4: Flaws and Fabrications of Memory

Lecture 5: Pattern Recognition—Seeing What’s Not There

Lecture 6: Our Constructed Reality

Lecture 7: The Structure and Purpose of Argument

Lecture 8: Logic and Logical Fallacies

Lecture 9: Heuristics and Cognitive Biases

Lecture 10: Poor at Probability—Our Innate Innumeracy

Lecture 11: Toward Better Estimates of What’s Probable

Lecture 12: Culture and Mass Delusions

Lecture 13: Philosophy and Presuppositions of Science

Lecture 14: Science and the Supernatural

Lecture 15: Varieties and Quality of Scientic Evidence

Lecture 16: Great Scientic Blunders

Lecture 17: Science versus Pseudoscience

Lecture 18: The Many Kinds of Pseudoscience

Lecture 19: The Trap of Grand Conspiracy Thinking

Lecture 20: Denialism—Rejecting Science and History

Lecture 21: Marketing, Scams, and Urban Legends

Lecture 22: Science, Media, and Democracy

Lecture 23: Experts and Scientific Consensus

Lecture 24: Critical Thinking and Science in Your Life


Den här boken borde vi ha som kursmaterial …