About this title: This brief, inexpensive text helps the reader to think critically, using examples from the weird claims and beliefs that abound in our culture to demonstrate the sound evaluation of any claim. The authors focus on types of logical arguments and proofs, making "How to Think about Weird Things" a versatile supplement for logic, critical thinking, philosophy of science, or any other science appreciation courses.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mayfield Publishing Company
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780767400138ISBN:0767400135
Description: Acceptable. "Used" stickers and/or stamps are present. Cover shows some edge wear and creasing. Light soiling and remainder mark on sides of book. Paper clip indention on top of page. Minor water damage but content intact. A few pages have been dog-eared or creased. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mayfield Publishing Company
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780767400138ISBN:0767400135
Description: Good. 148-V-Add: Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mayfield Publishing Company
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780767400138ISBN:0767400135
Description: Good. Standard used condition. May have light reading or storage wear All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
Description: Good in good dust jacket. cover is clean and barely worn but there is highlighting and underligning in text. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780767420488ISBN:0767420489
Description: Very Good. 0767420489 Minimal underlining. Residue of sticker on spine. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780072879537ISBN:007287953X
Description: Very Good. 007287953X 4th (Fourth) Edition First Printing; bottom corner of front cover to page viii missing 1/2" x 1/4" piece. read more
Edition: First edition. 2nd ed. Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Mayfield Publishing Company
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780767400138ISBN:0767400135
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. This is a free professional copy. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 304 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
""Weird Things" are the unexplained or strange phenomena that we all experience during our lifetimes, or at least have heard about. ESP, UFOs are but some of them.
This book explores the common misconceptions of the scientific method and logic very clearly, with examples, and gives the reader tips on "how to think". Many "Aha!" moments await the careful reader.
In this age of the internet, there is much confusion and misinformation about science. Many promoters of alternative theories complain of Big Science being a conspiracy of venal scientists who are more interested in maintaining the status quo than new ideas. These promoters often use scientific-sounding jargon, cherry-picked facts, while referring to themselves as persecuted lone geniuses, who, like Galileo, will eventually be exhonorated. Others are just scammers trying to make a quick buck.
Get this book, whatever it costs, read it and learn how to think logically and with precision. Don't ever fall into traps of fallacious reasoning again or be scammed. Learn why not all theories are the same - what criteria makes a theory good or bad. Why a theory that is predictive and useful, becomes even better when is has "scope" and "fruitfulness". Find out what the "scientific method" really means.
The quotations scattered throughout the book are worth the price alone. This is a book, that once read, will be taken out again and again for reference."
"this is the best book out there i've read (and i've read like a ton) specifically about the paranormal. still too naive realist-ish sometimes but there's no skeptic textbook so far that isn't... easy to understand and interesting."
"I used this as a textbook when I taught critical reasoning. It's about as entertaining a book on the subject as one could find, and includes a lot of epistemology, informal logic, and philosophy of science. And who wouldn't want to be able to give an informed answer when asked why exactly UFO reports are unworthy of credence?"
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