Pseudoscience and extraordinary claims of the paranormal: a critical thinker's toolkit
Smith, Jonathan C.
Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit provides readers with a variety of ‘reality-checking’ tools to make sense of the strange and unexplained. Geared for paranormal believers and skeptics alike, the text utilizes a systematic and clear-headed approach for making measured and thoughtful analyses of paranormal claims. Standard evaluative tools such as logic and scientific method are integrated with original approaches including a system for categorizing logical errors, a new approach to subjective realism, and the ‘continuum mysteriosum,’ an innovative hierarchy developed by the author for organizing paranormal and supernatural claims. Committedabove all to embracing fact over fiction, Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal encourages readers to question ‘fearlessly and honestly.’ The result may just be a greater appreciation of the awe and wonder that true science brings to our world.
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-8122-8
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha Publicación: 28/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés