Your deceptive mind : a scientific guide to critical thinking skills
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Your deceptive mind : a scientific guide to critical thinking skills
(The great courses, course no. 9344 . Topic,
Great Courses , グローバル・リンケージ [distributor], c2012
Videorecording(Videodisc)
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脳科学と思考技術 24講
Available at 2 libraries
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Doshisha University Library (Imadegawa)
disc 1DV141.5||N9592||1121150252,
disc 2DV141.5||N9592||2121150253, disc 3DV141.5||N9592||3121150254, disc 4DV141.5||N9592||4121150255, course guidebookDV141.5||N9592||S1121150256, viewer's memoDV141.5||N9592||S2121150257
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Other title and distributor from viewer's memo
Taught by: Steven Novella
Credits: producer, Tony Hidenrick ; director, Jonathan Leven
Made in 2012
DVD
Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, bibliography and discography
Viewer's memo ([5] folded leaves ; 19 cm.) inserted
Contents of Works
- Disc 1. The necessity of thinking about thinking
- The neuroscience of belief
- Errors of perception
- Flaws and fabrications of memory
- Pattern recognition : seeing what's not there
- Our constructed reality
- Disc 2. The 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 probable
- Culture and mass delusions
- Disc 3. Philosophy and presuppositions of science
- Science and the supernatural
- Varieties and quality of scientific evidence
- Great scientific blunders
- Science versus pseudoscience
- The many kinds of pseudoscience
- Disc 4. The 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