Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit
Dr. Jonathan C. Smith(auth.)
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 alikeContent:
Chapter 1 The Continuum Mysteriosum (pages 1–19):
Chapter 2 Why Study These Things? (pages 21–45):
Chapter 3 Reality Check (pages 47–69):
Chapter 4 Reality Check (pages 71–99):
Chapter 5 Reality Check (pages 101–117):
Chapter 6 Reality Checking for Oddities of Nature and the World of Numbers (pages 119–139):
Chapter 7 Reality Checking for Perceptual Error and Trickery (pages 141–166):
Chapter 8 Reality Checking for Memory Errors (pages 167–182):
Chapter 9 Reality Checking for the Placebo Effect (pages 183–202):
Chapter 10 Reality Checking for Sensory Anomalies and Hallucinations (pages 203–224):
Chapter 11 Spiritualism and the Survival Hypothesis (pages 225–243):
Chapter 12 Parapsychology (pages 245–267):
Chapter 13 Energy Treatments and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) (pages 269–283):
Chapter 14 Supernatural Cures and Faith Healing (pages 285–302):
Chapter 15 Creationism, Intelligent Design, and God (pages 303–317):
Chapter 16 The Reality Checkup (pages 319–339):
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Рік:
2009
Видавництво:
Wiley-Blackwell
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
409
ISBN 10:
1444310127
ISBN 13:
9781444310122
Файл:
PDF, 6.15 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2009