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Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit provides readers with a variety of "reality-checking" tools to analyze extraordinary claims and to determine their validity.

  • Integrates simple yet powerful evaluative tools used by both paranormal believers and skeptics alike
  • Introduces innovations such as a continuum for ranking paranormal claims and evaluating their implications
  • Includes an innovative "Critical Thinker's Toolkit," a systematic approach for performing reality checks on paranormal claims related to astrology, psychics, spiritualism, parapsychology, dream telepathy, mind-over-matter, prayer, life after death, creationism, and more
  • Explores the five alternative hypotheses to consider when confronting a paranormal claim<
  • Reality Check boxes, integrated into the text, invite students to engage in further discussion and examination of claims
  • Written in a lively, engaging style for students and general readers alike

Ancillaries: Testbank and PowerPoint slides available at www.wiley.com/go/pseudoscience

Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit

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Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit provides readers with a variety of "reality-checking" tools to... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 27/08/2009
    ISBN13: 9781405181235, 978-1405181235
    ISBN10: 1405181230

    Number of Pages: 432

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    Description

    Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit provides readers with a variety of "reality-checking" tools to analyze extraordinary claims and to determine their validity.

    • Integrates simple yet powerful evaluative tools used by both paranormal believers and skeptics alike
    • Introduces innovations such as a continuum for ranking paranormal claims and evaluating their implications
    • Includes an innovative "Critical Thinker's Toolkit," a systematic approach for performing reality checks on paranormal claims related to astrology, psychics, spiritualism, parapsychology, dream telepathy, mind-over-matter, prayer, life after death, creationism, and more
    • Explores the five alternative hypotheses to consider when confronting a paranormal claim<
    • Reality Check boxes, integrated into the text, invite students to engage in further discussion and examination of claims
    • Written in a lively, engaging style for students and general readers alike

    Ancillaries: Testbank and PowerPoint slides available at www.wiley.com/go/pseudoscience

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