Your deceptive mind a scientific guide to critical thinking skills
(2012)
By:
Novella, Steven
Nonfiction
Audiobook CD
Series:
Call Numbers:
CD/153/NOVELLA,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, [2012]
©2012
©2012
DESCRIPTION
12 audio discs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.)
ISBN/ISSN
1598038265 9344, 9781598038262, 9781598038262
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Compact discs
Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, bibliography and discography
Unabridged
Taught by: Professor Steven Novella, Yale School of Medicine
CONTENTS
Necessity of thinking about thinking --
Neuroscience of belief --
Errors of perception --
Flaws and fabrications of memory --
Pattern recognition: seeing what's not there --
Our constructed reality --
Structure and purpose of argument --
Logic and logical fallacies --
Heuristics and cognitive biases --
Poor at probability: our innate innumeracy --
Toward better estimates of what's probably --
Culture and mass delusions --
Philosophy and presuppositions of science --
Science and the supernatural --
Varieties and quality of scientific evidence --
Great scientific blunders --
Science versus pseudoscience --
Many kinds of pseudoscience --
Trap of grand conspiracy thinking --
Denialism: rejecting science and history --
Marketing, scams, and urban legends --
Science, media, and democracy --
Experts and scientific consensus --
Critical thinking and science in your life