You've Got To Be Kidding! (eBook)

How Jokes Can Help You Think

john CAPPS, Donald Capps (Autoren)

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2009 | 1. Auflage
144 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-0790-0 (ISBN)

Infos

You've Got to Be Kidding!: How Jokes Can Help You Think is a thoughtful and accessible analysis of the ways in which jokes illustrate how we think critically, and how the thinking process goes awry in everyday human situations.

* Uses jokes to illustrate the various mistakes or fallacies that are typically identified and discussed in courses on critical reasoning

* Provides an effective way to learn critical thinking skills since jokes often describe real-life situations where it really matters whether a person thinks well or not

* Demonstrates how philosophy is actually very practical and clearly related to real- life human experiences

* Explains how developing good reasoning habits can make a real difference in all aspects of one's life

Autor

John Capps is a Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Donald Capps is Professor of Pastoral Psychology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of more than 20 books, including A Time to Laugh: The Religion of Humor (2005).

Inhalt

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xiii

1 Why Thinking Critically Is Important 1

2 Fallacies of Relevance 13

3 Fallacies of Evidence 45

4 Fallacies of Assumption 80

5 Critical Thinking and Objective Truth 97

References 116

Index 119

Rezensionen

"A great book. But what do I know?"

- Socrates

"This book got me out of my cave."

- Plato

"An excellent book! Well, relatively."

- Albert Einstein

"It made me chuckle."

- Mona Lisa

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.11.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
• Schlagworte: Philosophical Logic • Philosophie • Philosophische Logik • Philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-0790-8 / 1444307908
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-0790-0 / 9781444307900