Download The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and What You Can Do About Them AudioBook Free
"Know Thyself", encouraged the ancient Greek sages at the same time when philosophers defined us as rational animals. Rationality was regarded as an ideal mainly achievable by handling the thoughts and avoiding logical fallacies. Today, we know better. Biology and neuroscience have subjected the brain as a great deceiver. Unconscious biases drive us to trust and do things that the conscious brain clarifies in self-serving reports, making us appear more rational to ourselves than we really are. Modern knowledge has educated us that rationality consists of much more than just controlling the thoughts and keeping away from fallacies. Today's rational creature - what we call the critical thinker - must understand the unconscious biases that are directing many of our most important judgments and decisions. The Critical Thinker's Dictionary explores the insights of ancient and modern philosophers combined with the latest results in such fields as neuroscience and behavioral economics to lay out the many hurdles and snares that await anyone committed to a rational life. The Critical Thinker's Dictionary is not a collection of dry out explanations, but a bright colored, three-dimensional family portrait of the major hurdles to critical thinking and what we can do to conquer them.
