Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
- ISBN-10
- 1615197931
- ISBN-13
- 9781615197934
- Series
- Good Thinking
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-03-30
- Publisher
- The Experiment
- Author
- David Robert Grimes
Description
Good Thinking is our best defense against anti-vaccine paranoia, climate denial, and other dire threats of today In a world where cries of “fake news” and mistrust of experts often hold sway, we can be misled all too easily. Consider: Wi-Fi is radiation. Some cancers are caused by radiation. Thus, Wi-Fi causes cancer. Sound convincing? In Good Thinking, David Robert Grimes helps us identify seductive and destructive bad logic. Take the “fallacy of the undistributed middle”: The ancient Greek philosophers are dead. Jimi Hendrix is dead. Thus, Jimi Hendrix was a Greek philosopher. In closing such logical loopholes, Grimes dismantles dangerous conspiracy theories and common misconceptions. (Wi-Fi does not cause cancer, and Hendrix did not jam with Socrates.) Packed with fascinating characters—from a murderous pope to a superstitious pigeon—Good Thinking can help us fight willful ignorance and plain old irrationality in all its forms.
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