How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age
Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis)
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Cover Blurb

  1. This brief, inexpensive text helps the reader to think critically, using examples from the weird claims and beliefs that abound in our culture to demonstrate the sound evaluation of any claim.
  2. The authors focus on types of logical arguments and proofs, making How to Think about Weird Things a versatile supplement for logic, critical thinking, philosophy of science, or any other science appreciation courses.
Book Comment

McGraw Hill, Fifth Edition, 2008


"Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - Arguments Good, Bad and Weird"

Source: Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, 5th Edn.


"Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - Case Studies in the Extraordinary"

Source: Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, 5th Edn.

Paper Comment

Kagan recommends pp. 265-279 (this edition) - Near-Death Experience1s


"Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - How to Think About Weird Things: Foreward, Preface & Epilogue"

Source: Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, 5th Edn.


"Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - How to Think About Weird Things: Introduction - Close Encounters with the Strange"

Source: Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, 5th Edn.


"Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - Knowledge, Belief, and Evidence"

Source: Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, 5th Edn.


"Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - Looking for Truth in Personal Experience"

Source: Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, 5th Edn.


"Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - Relativism, Truth, and Reality"

Source: Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, 5th Edn.


"Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - Science and its Pretenders"

Source: Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, 5th Edn.


"Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - The Possibility of the Impossible"

Source: Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, 5th Edn.


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