How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking For a New Age,
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CHAPTER 1: Introduction: Close Encounters with the Strange
CHAPTER 2: The Possibility of the Impossible
CHAPTER 3: Arguments Good, Bad, and Weird
CHAPTER 4: Knowledge, Belief, and Evidence
CHAPTER 5: Looking for Truth in Personal Experience
CHAPTER 6: Science and Its Pretenders
CHAPTER 7: Case Studies in the Extraordinary
CHAPTER 8: Relativism, Truth, and Reality
Theodore Schick received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard
University and his Ph.D. from Brown University. He is currently
professor of philosophy at Muhlenberg College where he has served
as Director of Academic Computing, Director of Freshman Seminars,
Director of the Muhlenberg Scholars Program, and Chair of the
Philosophy Department. He is the author of Doing Philosophy: An
Introduction through Thought Experiments, the editor of The
Philosophy of Science: From Positivism to Post-modernism, and has
published articles in several fields of philosophy including:
philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion,
philosophy of language, meta-philosophy, epistemology, ethics, and
aesthetics. He has also contributed to a number of volumes in Open
Courts Philosophy and Popular Culture series as well as Blackwells
Philosophy for Everyone series.
Lewis Vaughn is the author of numerous textbooks in philosophy,
critical thinking, and ethics including The Power of Critical
Thinking (2019); Concise Guide to Critical Thinking (2017);
Philosophy Here and Now (2019); Living Philosophy: A
Historical Introduction to Philosophical Ideas (2018); Doing
Ethics: Moral Reasoning, Theory, and Contemporary
Issues (2019); Beginning Ethics: An Introduction to Moral
Philosophy (2015); Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and
Cases (2017); and Writing Philosophy (2018).
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