What is the best way to prove a case, create a rule, solve a problem, justify an idea, invent a hypothesis, or evaluate an argument? In other words, what is the best way to think? In Tools of Thinking: Understanding the World through Experience and Reason, Professor James Hall turns his friendly but intellectually rigorous approach to the problem of thinking, introducing you to a wide range of proven techniques used in effective reasoning and the pursuit of knowledge.
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Experience is a powerful teacher, but it is also slow and painful -- and software practitioners cannot afford to make every mistake others have suffered. This book helps you compress your learning curve and bypass much of the pain by absorbing lessons from others who served in the trenches before you.
Explore possible answers to one of the greatest questions of them all: What if? In The Power of Thought Experiments, immerse yourself in thought experiments used by philosophers and others to examine how we think and view the world. And in Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature, explore humanity's fragile underbelly by investigating such topics as our thirst for vengeance, our tendency toward anger, and much more.
Thinking is at the heart of our everyday lives, yet our thinking can go wrong in any number of ways. Bad arguments, fallacious reasoning, misleading language, and built-in cognitive biases are all traps that keep us from rational decision making. What can we do to avoid these traps and think better? Is it possible to think faster, more efficiently, and more systematically? The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room, taught by award-winning Professor Patrick Grim of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, arms you against the perils of bad thinking and supplies you with an arsenal of strategies to help you be more creative, logical, inventive, realistic, and rational in all aspects of your daily life.
A BRAND NEW SET OF RULES: DISCOVER HOW TO THINK WELL, MAKE BETTER DECISIONS AND SOLVE PROBLEMS. DISCOVER THE RULES OF THINKING. We all envy the natural thinkers of this world. They have the best ideas, make the smartest decisions, are open minded and never indecisive. Is there something they know that the rest of us don't? Is it something we can all learn? The answer is a resounding yes.
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