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Reason Better!: An Interdisciplinary Guide to Critical Thinking PDF

282 Pages·2019·17 MB·English
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by David Manley| 2019| 282 pages| 17| English

About Reason Better!: An Interdisciplinary Guide to Critical Thinking

Reason Better is the result of rethinking the standard playbook for critical thinking courses. It’s about acquiring a mindset of inquiry, recognizing our cognitive biases, and adjusting our beliefs to match the strength of the evidence.What would it look like if we taught only the most useful skills from the toolkits of philosophy, cognitive psychology, and behavioral economics? This book emphasizes acquiring a mindset that avoids systematic error (rather than persuading others), focuses on the logic of probability and decisions more than on the logic of deductive arguments, and offers a unified picture of how evidence works in statistical, causal, and best-explanation inferences–rather than treating them as unrelated.The unified account of evidence is a broadly Bayesian one, but there aren’t any daunting theorems. (Without knowing it, students are taught to use a gentle form of the Bayes factor to measure the strength of evidence and to update.) It’s also shown how this framework illuminates aspects of the scientific method, such as the proper design of experiments.There’s no need to accept the false choice between a narrow Intro to Logic course and a remedial Critical Thinking course. Students come away with a sense of how to weigh the strength of evidence for claims, and adjust their beliefs accordingly.

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Author:David Manley
Publication Year:2019
Pages:282
Language:English
File Size:17
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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