Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills

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Course Description

Overview

Discover the science of cognitive biases and critical thinking and become a savvier, sharper critical thinker in your professional and personal life.

Syllabus

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01: The Necessity of Thinking about Thinking
02: The Neuroscience of Belief
03: Errors of Perception
04: Flaws and Fabrications of Memory
05: Pattern Recognition-Seeing What's Not There
06: Our Constructed Reality
07: The Structure and Purpose of Argument
08: Logic and Logical Fallacies
09: Heuristics and Cognitive Biases
10: Poor at Probability-Our Innate Innumeracy
11: Toward Better Estimates of What's Probable
12: Culture and Mass Delusions
13: Philosophy and Presuppositions of Science
14: Science and the Supernatural
15: Varieties and Quality of Scientific Evidence
16: Great Scientific Blunders
17: Science versus Pseudoscience
18: The Many Kinds of Pseudoscience
19: The Trap of Grand Conspiracy Thinking
20: Denialism-Rejecting Science and History
21: Marketing, Scams, and Urban Legends
22: Science, Media, and Democracy
23: Experts and Scientific Consensus
24: Critical Thinking and Science in Your Life

Taught by

Steven Novella, M.D.

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