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Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Narrative was divorced from philosophy in 375 BCE when Plato warned that it triggered passions and irrationality, and ever since it has been considered as rhetoric-it enhanced communication rather than thinking. Today, AI researchers define all types of intelligent thought-deduction, invention, problem-solving-as forms of logic. Logic is the source of mathematics, analytic philosophy, and other branches of truth-seeking; causal thinking is the source...
Author
Language
English
Description
Outlines recommendations for critical thinking practices that meet the challenges of the digital age's misinformation, demonstrating the role of science in information literacy while explaining the importance of skeptical reasoning in making decisions based on online information.
Publisher
Wiley Blackwell
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Ever decide to avoid a restaurant because of one bad meal? Choose a product because a celebrity endorsed it? Or ignore what a politician says because she's not a member of your party? For as long as people have been discussing, conversing, persuading, advocating, proselytizing, pontificating, or otherwise stating their case, arguments have been vulnerable to false assumptions and faulty reasoning. Drawing upon a long history of logical falsehoods...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine. The problem is that our brains' evolved capacity for avoiding and defending against threats has a slew of by-products, all tightly woven into our day-to-day thinking and behavior, that ensnare us while making our threat-anticipating brains "happy.".
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this book the philosophers Steve Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro will explain why bad thinking happens to good people. Why is it, they ask, that so large a segment of public can go so wrong in both how they come to form the opinions they do and how they fail to appreciate the moral consequences of acting on them. Their diagnosis of the current state of affairs in America, at least, is this: a significant proportion of the population is stupid. They...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
There is a vast class of things that science has so far almost entirely neglected. They are central to the understanding of physical reality both at an everyday level and at the level of the most fundamental phenomena in physics, yet have traditionally been assumed to be impossible to incorporate into fundamental scientific explanations. They are facts not about what is -- the actual -- but about what could be: counterfactuals. According to physicist...
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Explains how in the language of mathematics, fractions, decimals and percents are three different ways of describing the same parts of things.
Sumario en español: Explica cómo en la lengua de las matemáticas, las fracciónes, los decimales y los por ciento son tres diversas maneras de describir las mismas partes de cosas.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A simple, low-level, unplugged introduction to conditionals designed for young readers not yet ready for coding on computers. Beloved characters from the world-famous Disney franchise The Incredibles draw in readers new to coding concepts--
19) I can say no
Author
Publisher
National Center for Youth Issues
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This book teaches children the power of the word "no". Whether it's saying no to bullying or someone invading their personal space or simply to playing with a friend when they need some alone time. Children will learn they can use their voice to stand up for what is good in the world and good for themselves.
Author
Series
Jop and Blip wanna know volume 1
Publisher
HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jop! I've been thinking up some really weird questions. Can you hear a penguin fart on mars? What if you wanted a dragon sandwich? And why do we need two ears? Join Jop and Blip as they follow their curiosity and figure out the answers to life's most pressing questions. Everything is worth knowing!"-- cover page 4.
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