How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age (Paperback) by Theodore Schick, Mr. Lewis Vaughn, Martin Gardner

from inkdrinker

This book was fantastic! Before I read How to Think About Weird Things I had never really read a book about critical thinking. I had always thought of myself as a sharp person and able to see the fallacies in poor arguments, but this book really helped to sharpen my dissection of ideas and argume...

from antao

Perhaps logical arguments and rhetoric should be compulsory topics for sciences majors? (Or all STEM majors generally.) I know; it's icky philosophy and doesn't have any nice, hard answers but it's worth it for the change in thinking it can provoke. At the very least, you'll learn how to constr...

from Devil_llama

A good reference for teachers or others worrying about the amount of magical thinking in our world. The author writes readably, and has some very interesting insights. The book is fairly loaded with great epigrams about critical thinking, and the chapters are well organized. There are some unfort...

from Lenaphoenix

I've often wondered how my life might have been different if I had been given a good course in critical thinking skills in high school or college. Had I been so fortunate, this book would have been the best text I could imagine for such a course. A lot of the information covered here was familiar...

from princemuchao

Although dry at times, this book addresses logic and critical thinking, and how they can be used to evaluate supernatural claims, in a complete and easy to understand way. A glance at the tags for this book will reveal the breadth of scope - I recorded eighteen separate non-evidence based topics ...