When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People : : How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves / / Lawrence Shapiro, Steven Nadler.
Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today’s epidemic of irrationalityThere is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world today. An alarming number of people are embracing crazy, even dangerous, ideas. They believe that vaccinations cause autism. They reject the scientific consensu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Our Epistemological Crisis
- 1. Thinking, Bad and Good
- 2. How to Be Reasonable
- 3. Thinking and Explaining
- 4. When Bad Thinking Becomes Bad Behavior
- 5. Wisdom
- 6. The Philosophical Life
- Conclusion: Thinking Responsibly
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index