Helps readers to think critically, using examples from the weird claims and beliefs that abound in our culture to demonstrate the sound evaluation of any claim. This text focuses on types of logical arguments and proofs, making it a versatile supplement for logic, critical thinking, philosophy of science, or any other science appreciation courses.

Offers an introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organised around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but briefly. This work is suitable for writers who seek straightforward guidance about how to assess arguments and how to cogently construct them.

When can we trust what we believe, and when are such beliefs suspect? Here, Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life, documenting the cognitive, social and motivational processes that distort our thoughts, beliefs, judgements and decisions.

Optimise your thinking, decision making and problem solving with the inventor of the term 'lateral thinking'.

A Guide to Critical Thinking.

An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century.

Presenting different arguments for religion, this book demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. It aims to show how religion fuels war, foments bigotry and abuses children.

Examines critical-thinking skills that are useful in a complex society where success - in all facets of life - often requires the ability to evaluate the validity of many conflicting claims. This work illustrates these tendencies with numerous examples that demonstrate how easily we can be fooled into believing something that isn't true.

In this highly accessible book, Alec Fisher shows students how they can develop a range of creative and critical thinking skills that are transferable to other subjects and contexts.

What is 'humpty-dumptying'? Do 'arguments from analogy' ever stand up? How do I know when someone is using 'weasel words'? This book intends to help anyone who wants to argue well and think critically. It includes such entries as: Principle of Charity; Lawyer's Answer; Least Worst Option; Poisoning the Well; Sentimentality; and Sunk Cost Fallacy.

A work on critical thinking that uses a fresh approach to teach the basics of informal logic. It helps readers detect the misuse or abuse of logic when they encounter it in others - whether in a heated political debate or while trying to evaluate the claims of a persuasive sales person.

A provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages selected by bestselling author Christopher Hitchens

What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? And, what can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? This book shows us how to stop trying to predict everything and take advantage of uncertainty.

Revised and updated for the third edition, this practical guide covers critical thinking skills for students.

Creeping into art, literature, politics and the media, sliding into living rooms and coming soon to a cinema near you the Middle Mind has arrived. Join Curtis White on a crusade against tedium as he takes on this bland, no-thinking-required product' that passes for culture in America and that we've signed up and paid for in full too.

Introduces the reader to the niceties of samples (random or stratified random), averages (mean, median or modal), errors (probable, standard or unintentional), graphs, indexes, and other tools of democratic persuasion.

From 9/11 conspiracy theories to Holocaust denial, creationism to alternative medicine, there is an epidemic of demonstrably untrue descriptions of the world. This book demonstrates that unless the defenders of enlightenment values fight back soon, the counterknowledge industry has the potential to create political, social and economic disasters.