Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's ToolkitJohn Wiley & Sons, 26 sept 2011 - 256 páginas Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit provides readers with a variety of "reality-checking" tools to analyze extraordinary claims and to determine their validity.
Ancillaries: Testbank and PowerPoint slides available at www.wiley.com/go/pseudoscience |
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P r ll Th rii lThink r T | |
Reality Check | |
Reality Check | |
Reality Check | |
Reality Checking for Oddities of Nature and | |
Reality Checking for Sensory Anomalies | |
Spiritualism and the Survival Hypothesis | |
Parapsychology | |
Energy Treatments and Complementary | |
Supernatural Cures and Faith Healing | |
Creationism Intelligent Design and | |
The Reality Checkup | |
Appendix B Critical Thinking and Paranormal | |
Reality Checking for Perceptual Error and Trickery | |
Reading Toolkit | |
Reality Checking for Memory Errors | |
Reality Checking for the Placebo Effect | |
Susan Blackmore on Paranormal | |
References | |
Name Index | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker ... Jonathan C. Smith No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2009 |
Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker ... Jonathan C. Smith No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2009 |
Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker ... Jonathan C. Smith No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2009 |
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