Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills

Compilation by Steven Novella

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  1. 1.
    The Necessity of Thinking About Thinking
  2. 2.
    The Neuroscience of Belief
  3. 3.
    Errors of Perception
  4. 4.
    Flaws and Fabrications of Memory
  5. 5.
    Pattern Recognition — Seeing What’s Not There
  6. 6.
    Our Constructed Reality
  7. 7.
    The Structure and Purpose of Argument
  8. 8.
    Logic and Logical Fallacies
  9. 9.
    Heuristics and Cognitive Biases
  10. 10.
    Poor at Probability — Our Innate Innumeracy
  11. 11.
    Toward Better Estimates of What’s Probable
  12. 12.
    Culture and Mass Delusions
  13. 13.
    Philosophy and Presuppositions of Science
  14. 14.
    Science and the Supernatural
  15. 15.
    Varieties and Quality of Scientific Evidence
  16. 16.
    Great Scientific Blunders
  17. 17.
    Science Versus Pseudoscience
  18. 18.
    The Many Kinds of Pseudoscience
  19. 19.
    The Trap of Grand Conspiracy Thinking
  20. 20.
    Denialism — Rejecting Science and History
  21. 21.
    Marketing, Scams, and Urban Legends
  22. 22.
    Science, Media, and Democracy
  23. 23.
    Experts and Scientific Consensus
  24. 24.
    Critical Thinking and Science in Your Life

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