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Author:   Jonathan C. Smith (University of Roosevelt, Chicago, USA)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9781119029359

ISBN 10:   111902935
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   29 August 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix Part I Introduction 1 1 Critical Thinking: Your Survival Kit 3 2 The Paranormal Spectrum 13 3 What’s the Harm? Why Study These Things? 25 Part II The Critical Thinker’s Toolkit 47 4 Sources 49 5 Logic (Bonus: The Big Four Informal Logical Fallacies) 61 6 Logic and Language: Fallacies of Ambiguity 79 7 Science 93 Part III Alternative Explanations 115 8 Oddities of Nature and the World of Numbers 117 9 Perceptual Error and Trickery 135 10 Memory Errors 155 11 The Placebo Effect 167 12 Sensory Phenomena, Hallucinations, and Psychiatric Conditions 189 Part IV Paranormal Challenges 211 13 Claims of Extraordinary Cures 213 14 From the Paranormal Sampler: Four Claims of Consequence 229 Appendix A: Why Do You Believe? 255 Appendix B: Belief Justification Survey 261 Notes 271 References 273 Index 295

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JONATHAN C. SMITH is a Professor of Psychology at Roosevelt University, Founding Director of the Roosevelt University Stress Institute, and Head of the Pseudoscience and Paranormal Laboratory. He has published 23 books and has written numerous articles on critical thinking, advanced relaxation and mindfulness theory and practice, stress management, and 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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