Good Thinking
eBook - ePub

Good Thinking

Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World

  1. 386 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Good Thinking

Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World

About this book

Good Thinking is our best defense against anti-vaccine paranoia, climate denial, and other dire threats of today

Publisher's Note: Good Thinking was previously published in the UK as The Irrational Ape.
In our ever-more-polarized society, there's at least one thing we still agree on: The world is overrun with misinformation, faulty logic, and the gullible followers who buy into it all. Of course, we're not among themā€”are we?
Scientist David Robert Grimes is on a mission to expose the logical fallacies and cognitive biases that drive our discourse on a dizzying array of topicsā€“from vaccination to abortion, 9/11 conspiracy theories to dictatorial doublespeak, astrology to alternative medicine, and wrongful convictions to racism. But his purpose in Good Thinking isn't to shame or place blame. Rather, it's to interrogate our own assumptionsā€“to develop our eye for the glimmer of truth in a vast sea of dubious sourcesā€“in short, to think critically.
Grimes's expert takedown of irrationality is required reading for anyone wondering why bad thinking persists and how we can defeat it. Ultimately, no one changes anyone else's mind; we can only change our ownā€“and give others the tools to do the same.

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Information

Publisher
The Experiment
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781615197941
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Logic in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Acclaim For Good Thinking
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Prologue
  8. Introduction: From Absurdity to Atrocity
  9. Part I: Without Reason: Formal Fallacies and How to Defeat Them
  10. Part 2: The Pure and Simple Truth?: Spotting and Debunking Dubious Rhetoric
  11. Part 3: Trapdoors of the Mind: The Struggle Between Reason and Belief
  12. Part 4: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: How Numbers Can Mislead Us
  13. Part 5: News of the World: How Media Indulges Bad Thinking
  14. Part 6: The Candle in the Dark: What Science Is and What It Is Not
  15. Epilogue
  16. References and Further Reading
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Index
  19. About the Author

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