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The philosopher's toolkit : how to be the most rational person in any room / Patrick Grim.

Teaching Company, (publisher.).

Summary:
"Professor Grim's work spans ethics, logic, game theory, philosophy of science, and contemporary metaphysics."

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781598039337
  • ISBN: 9781598039344 (guidebook)
  • ISBN: 1598039342 (guidebook)
  • ISBN: 1598039334
  • Physical Description: 4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (v, 249 pages : illustrated ; 19 cm).
  • Publisher: Chantilly, Virginia : Teaching Company, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:
24 Lectures / 30 minutes per lecture.
Formatted Contents Note:
Disc 1. Lecture 1. How we think and how to think better -- Lecture 2. Cool rationality and hot thought -- Lecture 3. The strategy of visualization -- Lecture 4. Visualizing concepts and propositions -- Lecture 5. The power of thought experiment -- Lecture 6. Thinking like Aristotle -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Ironclad, airtight validity -- Lecture 8. Thinking outside the box -- Lecture 10. The flow of arguments -- Lecture 11. Why we make mistakes -- Lecture 12. Rational discussion in a polarized context -- Disc. 3. Lecture 13. Rhetoric versus rationality -- Lecture 14. Bogus arguments and how to defuse them -- Lecture 15. The great debate -- Lecture 16. Outwitting the advertiser -- Lecture 17. Putting a spin on statistics -- Lecture 18. Poker, probability, and everyday life --Disc. 4. Lecture 19. Decisions, decisions -- Lecture 20. Thinking scientifically -- Lecture 21. Put it to the test -- beautiful experiments -- Lecture 22. Game theory and beyond -- Lecture 23. Thinking with models -- Lecture 24. Lessons from the great thinkers.
Participant or Performer Note:
Taught by : Professor Patrick Grim, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
System Details Note:
DVD.
Subject: Philosophy > Science.
Thought and thinking.
Ethics.
Game theory.
Practical reason.
Metaphysics.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Nazareth. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity.

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Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity DVD 153.4 PHI 2013 (Text) 31001101930551 DVD Adult Available -


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