Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit

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John Wiley & Sons, 26 сент. 2011 г. - Всего страниц: 256

Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit provides readers with a variety of "reality-checking" tools to analyze extraordinary claims and to determine their validity.

  • Integrates simple yet powerful evaluative tools used by both paranormal believers and skeptics alike
  • Introduces innovations such as a continuum for ranking paranormal claims and evaluating their implications
  • Includes an innovative "Critical Thinker's Toolkit," a systematic approach for performing reality checks on paranormal claims related to astrology, psychics, spiritualism, parapsychology, dream telepathy, mind-over-matter, prayer, life after death, creationism, and more
  • Explores the five alternative hypotheses to consider when confronting a paranormal claim“/li>
  • Reality Check boxes, integrated into the text, invite students to engage in further discussion and examination of claims
  • Written in a lively, engaging style for students and general readers alike

Ancillaries: Testbank and PowerPoint slides available at www.wiley.com/go/pseudoscience

 

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Acknowledgments
Why Study These Things?
Reality Check
Reality Check
Reality Check
Consider Alternative Explanations
Reality Checking for Perceptual Error and Trickery
Reality Checking for Memory Errors
Parapsychology
Energy Treatments and Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Supernatural Cures and Faith Healing
Creationism Intelligent Design and
The Reality Checkup
Appendix A Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Susan Blackmore on Paranormal Research
References

Reality Checking for the Placebo Effect
Placebo Controversies
Spiritualism and the Survival Hypothesis
Name Index
Subject Index
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Об авторе (2011)

Jonathan C. Smith, Ph.D., is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Professor of Psychology at Roosevelt University, Founding Director of the Roosevelt University Stress Institute, and Head of the Pseudoscience and Paranormal Laboratory. Dr. Smith has published 17 books and has written numerous articles on stress, relaxation, meditation, and mindfulness, as well as spirituality and skepticism. In 1984 he founded the Roosevelt University Stress Institute primarily to combat pseudoscience in the field. He has created classroom and online classes specifically designed to teach critical thinking skills and evaluate extraordinary claims of the paranormal.

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НазваниеPseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit
Wiley Desktop Editions
АвторJonathan C. Smith
ИздательJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1444358944, 9781444358940
Количество страницВсего страниц: 256
  
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