CD Audiobook
Your deceptive mind : a scientific guide to critical thinking skills / Stephen Novella.
In twenty-four lectures, provides an overview of thinking that will help you think and act more strategically in business and in your own life.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781490659541
- ISBN: 1490659544
- Physical Description: 12 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 PDF disc.
- Publisher: [Chantilly, Virginia] : The Teaching Company, [2012]
- Distributor: Prince Frederick, MD : [Distributed by] Recorded Books.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "Course no. 9344."Compact discs.PDF disc contains course workbook.In container (17 cm.).The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Lecture 1. The necessity of thinking about thinking -- lecture 2. The neuroscience of belief -- lecture 3. Errors of perception -- lecture 4. Flaws and fabrications of memory -- lecture 5. Pattern recognition : seeing what's not there -- lecture 6. Our constructed reality -- lecture 7. The structure and purpose of argument -- lecture 8. Logic and logical fallacies -- lecture 9. Heuristics and cognitive biases -- lecture 10. Poor at probability : our innate innumeracy -- lecture 11. Toward better estimates of what's probable -- lecture 12. Culture and mass delusions -- lecture 13. Philosophy and presuppositions of science -- lecture 14. Science and the supernatural -- lecture 15. Varieties and quality of scientific evidence -- lecture 16. Great scientific blunders -- lecture 17. Science versus pseudoscience -- lecture 18. The many kinds of pseudoscience -- lecture 19. The trap of grand conspiracy thinking -- lecture 20. Denialism : rejecting science and history -- lecture 21. Marketing, scams, and urban legends -- lecture 22. Science, media, and democracy -- lecture 23. Experts and scientific consensus -- lecture 24. Critical thinking and science in your life.
- Participant or Performer Note:
- Lecturer: Professor Steven Novella, Yale School of Medicine.
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- Critical thinking.
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Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | BF 441 .N68 2012 V. 1 of 2 | 289289 | Audio Shelf | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | BF 441 .N68 2012 V. 2 of 2 | 289290 | Audio Shelf | Available | - |