Your Deceptive Mind : a Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills

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Call Number: BOCD 153.42 No Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Compact discs.
Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, bibliography and discography.
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.
Taught by: Professor Steven Novella, Yale School of Medicine.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Good for a science student submitted by valentina on May 5, 2022, 3:32pm In my view, this course is not for a general public. I am not a scientist and not a student. It was brain teasing at best, and gives a general understanding of how science works, but definitely not applicable in common life.