Textbook Rationality: Rationality - and why we should teach it in schools - Softcover

Phillips, Ivan

 
9781736578308: Textbook Rationality: Rationality - and why we should teach it in schools
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1736578308 ISBN 13: 9781736578308
Publisher: Barley Lane Books, 2021

Synopsis

A primer on rational thinking... and a plan for teaching it in schools

We all want to be the rational parent, the rational consumer, and the rational voter. So why is it that so few of us can readily define what it means to think rationally?

In this timely and inspiring book, Ivan Phillips argues that irrationality is rampant because we have never taught the key principles of rational thinking in schools.

In concise and accessible writing, Textbook Rationality explains

  • How to distinguish rational thinking from irrational and non-rational thinking
  • Why rationality and critical thinking are not the same thing
  • How to use Bayesian reasoning to decide what is true
  • How to anticipate cognitive bias and employ countermeasures
  • How to squeeze a course on rationality into a high school curriculum

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ivan Phillips has a doctorate in theoretical physics from Northwestern University and is a frequent speaker on the topic of rational thinking.

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Publisher
Barley Lane Books
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1736578308
ISBN 13 
9781736578308
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
232

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