Your deceptive mind : a scientific guide to critical thinking skills

Author(s)

    • Novella, Steven
    • Hidenrick, Tony
    • Leven, Jonathan

Bibliographic Information

Your deceptive mind : a scientific guide to critical thinking skills

Steven Novella

(The great courses, course no. 9344 . Topic, professional . Subtopic, thinking skills)

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

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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

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Details

  • NCID
    BB11337991
  • ISBN
    • 1598038273
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chantilly, Va.,東京
  • Pages/Volumes
    4 videodiscs (720 min.)
  • Size
    12 cm.
  • Attached Material
    1 course guidebook (vi, 230 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.)
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