Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
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
- By This Professor
- 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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