Textbook Rationality: Rationality - and why we should teach it in schools - Brossura

Phillips, Ivan

 
9781736578308: Textbook Rationality: Rationality - and why we should teach it in schools
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ISBN 10: 1736578308 ISBN 13: 9781736578308
Casa editrice: Barley Lane Books, 2021

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A primer on rational thinking... and a plan for teaching it in schools

We all want to be the rational parent, the rational consumer, and the rational voter. So why is it that so few of us can readily define what it means to think rationally?

In this timely and inspiring book, Ivan Phillips argues that irrationality is rampant because we have never taught the key principles of rational thinking in schools.

In concise and accessible writing, Textbook Rationality explains

  • How to distinguish rational thinking from irrational and non-rational thinking
  • Why rationality and critical thinking are not the same thing
  • How to use Bayesian reasoning to decide what is true
  • How to anticipate cognitive bias and employ countermeasures
  • How to squeeze a course on rationality into a high school curriculum

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ivan Phillips has a doctorate in theoretical physics from Northwestern University and is a frequent speaker on the topic of rational thinking.

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Editore
Barley Lane Books
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1736578308
ISBN 13 
9781736578308
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
232
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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ISBN 10:  1736578332 ISBN 13:  9781736578339
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