How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age / Theodore Schick, Lewis Vanghn and Martin Gardner.
Publication details: London, Toronto: Mayfield Publishing Company, c1995Description: xvi, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 1559342544
- 9781559342544
- 22 OO1.901 SCH
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CONTENTS
Chapter One: Introduction: Clouse Encounters with The Strange
The Importance of Why?
Beyond Weird to the Absurd
A Weirdness Sampler
Chapter Two: The Possibility of the Impossible
Paradigms and Paranormal
Logical Possibility Versus Physical Impossibility
The Appeal to Ignorance
The Possibility of ESP
Theories and Things
On Knowing the Future
Chapter Three: Looking for Truth in Personal Experience
Seeming and Being
Perceiving, True or False
Remembering: Do we Revise the Past ?
Judging: The Habit of Unwarranted Assumptions
The Limits of Personal Experience
Chapter Four: Relativism, Truth, and Reality
Truth is Relative to Individuals
Truth is Relative to Societies
Truth is Relative to Conceptual Schemes
The Relativist Petard
Facing Reality
Etc.
Chapter Five: Knowledge, Belief, and Evidence
Babylonian Knowledge Acquisition Techniques
Propositional Knowledge
Reasons and Evidence
Expert Opinion
Coherence and Justification
Sources of Knowledge
Etc.
Chapter Six: Mystical Knowing
True Mystic Moments
Speaking about the Unspeakable
The Causes of the Mystical
Etc.
Chapter Seven: How to Assess a ‘’Miracle Cure’’
Personal Experience
The Doctor’s Evidence
The Appeal to Tradition
The Reasons of Science
Chapter Eight: Science and Its Pretenders
Science and Dogma
Scientific Methodology
Confirming and Configuring Hypotheses
Creationism, Evolution, and Criteria of Adequacy
Parapsychology
Chapter Nine: Case Studies in the Extraordinary
The Search Formula
Dowsing
UFO Abductions
Channeling
Near Death Experiences
Includes: Index: p. 294-299
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