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How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age Paperback – 16 May 2013

by Lewis Vaughn (Author), Theodore Schick (Author)

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Teaches the basic principles of good reasoning through an examination of widely held beliefs about the paranormal, the supernatural, and the mysterious.

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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.

Lewis Vaughn is the author of numerous textbooks in philosophy, critical thinking, and ethics including The Power of Critical Thinking (2019); Concise Guide to Critical Thinking (2017); Philosophy Here and Now (2019); Living Philosophy: A Historical Introduction to Philosophical Ideas (2018); Doing Ethics: Moral Reasoning, Theory, and Contemporary Issues (2019); Beginning Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy (2015); Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases (2017); and Writing Philosophy (2018).

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw-Hill Education; 7th edition (16 May 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1259095517
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1259095511
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.52 x 22.86 cm

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Lewis Vaughn is the author or coauthor of several books, including: Philosophy Here and Now (2013); Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases, Second Edition (2013); Great Philosophical Arguments (2012); Classics of Philosophy (2011); Philosophy: The Quest for Truth, Eighth Edition (2012); How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, Sixth Edition (2011); Doing Ethics: Moral Reasoning and Contemporary Issues, Third Edition (2013); Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, Fourth Edition (2010); The Moral Life, Fourth Edition (2011); and Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Writing Philosophy Essays (OUP, 2005).
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stuart a ballard

Great textbook

Reviewed in the United States on 16 February 2023

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If your in a class using this as it's source material you'll enjoy the class! I'd buy this one as a cheap paperback over renting or digital, good reference point for future classes.

SQ

This book!

Reviewed in Canada on 29 March 2014

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It was the book required for my critical thinking course.
It concentrates on weird things, as the title indicates.
I ended up asking my prof if there were better books out there
that discussed critical thinking. Not everything we encounter
is weird and spooky and paranormal. I got more from class notes at
lectures than this book.

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Awetabon

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Reviewed in the United States on 17 December 2018

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This book really makes you "think about what you're thinking about." I couldn't stop thinking about how this book was, "so cool." We've been thinking from the moment we're born, but are we thinking in the most efficient way? I never noticed how many fallacies I make in everyday life, how many assumptions I make, or things I held as true that I never really tested out.
I couldn't put this book down and finished it in two days. It is really interesting, easy to read, and I love the paranormal examples!
I think this is an important book for anyone, because sometimes your current belief or hypothesis isn't the best or most efficient one, and you can stand to improve your life by testing your beliefs, in a controlled manner, without being misled by emotions.

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Blue Kitty

It's weird, but wonderful:

Reviewed in the United States on 23 February 2015

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It's great! The information is written in such a creative way that the student is being entertained as well as informed. Learning is suddenly fun, and easy to understand. I am a tutor and my ESL student is doing better with this text book than he has done with any other. I am so pleased and can heartily recommend that teachers and tutors everywhere appraise this book for yourselves, I think you will be pleased.

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