How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age

In our age of information overload, how do we effectively sift through the clutter and determine reality, or at least the probability of truthfulness? How does disinformation determine the outcome of our lives and well being? Most of us simply absorb information and regurgitate it as fact, without determining its validity. In an effort to improve our critical thinking skills, How to Think About Weird Things : Critical Thinking for a New Age offers sound insight, methods and the tools most of us have never really delved into to avoid the pitfalls of propaganda and the paranormal.

This brief, inexpensive text helps students think critically, using examples from the weird claims and beliefs that abound in our culture to demonstrate the sound evaluation of any claim. 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.