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topical index: logic & perception
ad hoc hypothesis
ad
populum fallacy
affect
bias
anomalistic psychology
anchoring effect
apophenia
appeal to authority
appeal
to tradition
argument to ignorance
autokinetic effect
availability error
backward (satanic) messages
begging the question
Barnum effect
change blindness
Clever Hans phenomenon
clustering illusion
cognitive dissonance
cold reading
collective hallucinations
communal reinforcement
Concorde fallacy
confabulation
confirmation bias
control group study
déjà vu
divine fallacy
face on Mars
false dilemma
false memory
Forer effect
gambler's fallacy
hidden persuaders
hypersensory perception
inattentional
blindness
ideomotor effect
infrasound
jamais vu
law of truly large numbers
Littlewood's law of
miracles
magical thinking
mass
hysteria
memory
Moses syndrome
nocebo effect
non sequitur
Occam's razor
pareidolia
placebo effect
positive-outcome bias
post hoc fallacy
pragmatic fallacy
regressive fallacy
representativeness error
retrospective falsification
selection bias
selective thinking
self-deception
shoehorning
subliminal
sunk-cost fallacy
testimonial
Texas-sharpshooter fallacy
wishful thinking
Recommended Reading
Critical Thinking
Mini-Lessons
Adams, James L. Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas 3rd
ed. (Perseus Press, 1990).
Ariely, Dan. (2008).
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins).
Dawes, Robyn M. Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics,
and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (Westview
Press 2003).
Gardner, Martin.
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (New York:
Dover Publications, Inc., 1957),
Gardner, Martin. Science: Good, Bad and Bogus (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus
Books, 1981),
Gilovich, Thomas. How We Know What Isn't' So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in
Everyday Life
(New York: The Free Press, 1993).
Groopman, Jerome. M.D. 2007. How Doctors Think. Houghton Mifflin.
My review of this book is
here.
Kahneman, Daniel. Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky. eds. 1982.
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases Cambridge University
Press.
Kida, Thomas. 2006. Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic
Mistakes We Make in Thinking. Prometheus.
Kourany, Janet A. Scientific
Knowledge: Basic Issues in the Philosophy of Science, 2nd edition (Belmont:
Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1998).
Levine, Robert. 2003. The Power of Persuasion - How We're Bought and
Sold. John Wiley & Sons.
Sagan, Carl.
The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark
(New York: Random House, 1995).
Seckel, Al. (2006). Incredible Visual Illusions.Arcturus Publishing,
Ltd.
Sternberg, Robert J. ed. Why Smart people Can Be So Stupid. (Yale
University Press 2002).
Sutherland, Stuart. (2007).
Irrationality. 2rev edition (Pinter & Martin Ltd).
Visit the Carl Sagan room
of the Skeptic's Bookstore for more books on logic and perception.
Last
updated 10/29/09
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