ISE How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age (ISE HED PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION) - Softcover

Schick Jr., Theodore; Vaughn, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1260548074 ISBN 13: 9781260548075

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2019

Synopsis

How to Think about Weird Things, is a concise and engaging text that offers students a step-by-step process by which to determine when a claim is likely to be true.  Schick and Vaughn provide a course on critical thinking- emphasizing neither debunking nor advocating specific claims, but rather explaining principles of good reasoning that enable students to evaluate any claim, no matter how strange, for themselves.  By teaching readers how to distinguish good reasons from bad reasons for believing a claim, this text helps students improve their decision-making abilities and provides them with a powerful weapon against all forms of hucksterism.  

About this title

About the Author:

Theodore Schick received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Brown University. He is currently professor of philosophy at Muhlenberg College where he has served as Director of Academic Computing, Director of Freshman Seminars, Director of the Muhlenberg Scholars Program, and Chair of the Philosophy Department. He is the author of Doing Philosophy: An Introduction through Thought Experiments, the editor of The Philosophy of Science: From Positivism to Post-modernism, and has published articles in several fields of philosophy including: philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, meta-philosophy, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics. He has also contributed to a number of volumes in Open Courts Philosophy and Popular Culture series as well as Blackwells Philosophy for Everyone series.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1260548074
• ISBN 13: 9781260548075
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 370