Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit

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John 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.

  • Integrates simple yet powerful evaluative tools used by both paranormal believers and skeptics alike
  • Introduces innovations such as a continuum for ranking paranormal claims and evaluating their implications
  • Includes an innovative "Critical Thinker's Toolkit," a systematic approach for performing reality checks on paranormal claims related to astrology, psychics, spiritualism, parapsychology, dream telepathy, mind-over-matter, prayer, life after death, creationism, and more
  • Explores the five alternative hypotheses to consider when confronting a paranormal claim“/li>
  • Reality Check boxes, integrated into the text, invite students to engage in further discussion and examination of claims
  • Written in a lively, engaging style for students and general readers alike

Ancillaries: Testbank and PowerPoint slides available at www.wiley.com/go/pseudoscience

 

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About the Author
Acknowledgments
Why Study These Things?
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
Página de créditos

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Sobre el autor (2011)

Jonathan C. Smith, Ph.D., is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Professor of Psychology at Roosevelt University, Founding Director of the Roosevelt University Stress Institute, and Head of the Pseudoscience and Paranormal Laboratory. Dr. Smith has published 17 books and has written numerous articles on stress, relaxation, meditation, and mindfulness, as well as spirituality and skepticism. In 1984 he founded the Roosevelt University Stress Institute primarily to combat pseudoscience in the field. He has created classroom and online classes specifically designed to teach critical thinking skills and evaluate extraordinary claims of the paranormal.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloPseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit
Wiley Desktop Editions
AutorJonathan C. Smith
EditorJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1444358944, 9781444358940
N.º de páginas256 páginas
  
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