The New Critical Thinking by Jack Lyons (.epub) torrent

The New Critical Thinking: An Empirically Informed Introduction by Jack Lyons

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Overview:  Why is it so hard to learn critical thinking skills?
Traditional textbooks focus almost exclusively on logic and fallacious reasoning, ignoring two crucial problems. As psychologists have demonstrated recently, many of our mistakes are not caused by formal reasoning gone awry, but by our bypassing it completely. We instead favor more comfortable, but often unreliable, intuitive methods. Second, the evaluation of premises is of fundamental importance, especially in this era of fake news and politicized science.

Genre:  Non-Fiction > General