Robert Henry Thouless

Straight and Crooked Thinking

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new edition of a popular guide to how to think and reason your way logically through difficult and challenging arguments. This is a classic, updated for the 21st century by the original author's grandson, although the material is largely timeless. Various blogs and online recommendations have revived interest, particularly among students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 132mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 142g
• ISBN-13: 9781444117189
• ISBN-10: 1444117181
• Artikelnr.: 29195642

Autorenporträt

Born in 1894, Robert Thouless was a psychologist. He was Head of the Department of Psychology in Glasgow until 1938, after which he became Reader and Reader Emeritus at Cambridge. He specialised in logic, rationality and the study of responses to the paranormal and wrote several titles in addition to this one. He died in 1984.

Inhaltsangabe

: 1. Different ways of using language
: 2. Words and facts
: 3. The meanings of words
: 4. Definition and some of its difficulties
: 5. Good and bad definitions
: 6. All and some
: 7. Some dishonest tricks in argument
: 8. Some logical fallacies
: 9. Habits of thought
: 10. Prejudice
: 11. Predigested thinking
: 12. Pitfalls in analogy
: 13. Oratory and suggestion
: 14. Tricks of suggestion
: 15. Straight thinking
: 16. The future of straight thinking
: Appendix 1: Thirty-seven dishonest tricks commonly used in argument, with the methods of overcoming them
: Appendix 2: A discussion illustrating crooked thinking
: Index