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Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit
Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal A Critical Thinker's Toolkit
Author: Jonathan C. Smith
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 ...  more »
  • 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
ISBN-13: 9781405181235
ISBN-10: 1405181230
Publication Date: 9/28/2009
Pages: 432
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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