How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age Lewis Vaughn, Theodore Schick
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Schick, Theodore Jr & Vaughn, Lewis (2002) “How to Think About Weird Things : Critical Thinking for a New Age” Third Edition, The Mcgraw-Hill Companies : USA. This brief, inexpensive text helps the reader to think critically, using examples from the weird claims and beliefs that abound in our culture to demonstrate the sound evaluation of any claim. The file seems to be playing fine on itunes or in firefox browser but for some weird reason it cuts off at 40min in Chrome. Prometheus 1988 ISBN 0-87975-198-3; Schick, T. & Vaughn, L., “How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age”, McGraw-Hill 2002. I have just listened to an excellent talk about critical thinking, given by Jeremy Beahan over at the Reasonable Doubts podcast. It was not difficult encouraging her to read skeptical authors, so she would know "the other side of the story." I suggested that she read Schick and Vaughn's How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age. I had read a critical thinking book by Carl Sagan, which I really enjoyed, so I'll look into the book you suggested, "How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age". Source: Cotton, John L., and Randal J. Books: Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments; Readings In The Philosophy of Science: From Positivism to Postmodernism; and How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age.