Summer 2010 Critical Thinking Coursework

Critical Thinking Reader, Fall 2010

Haidt, Jonathan. (2006). "The Divided Self," from The Happiness Hypothesis New York: Basic Books.

Stanovich, K. E. (2009). The Thinking that IQ tests Miss. Scientific American, 34-39.

Mayes, R. (2010). Argument-Explanation Complementarity and the Structure of Informal Reasoning. Informal Logic, 30(1), 92-111.

Sevilla, A. S. K. (2007). Chapters 18 & 19: Basics of Probability & Conditional Probabilities. A. S. K. Sevilla Quantitative Reasoning . Bethlehem, PA: Key College Publishers.

Silberman, S. (2009). Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know why. Wired Magazine, 17(9). http://www.wired.com/print/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect

Schick, T. V. L. (2010). Science and Its Pretenders. T. V. L. Schick How to Think about Weird Things (pp. 158-180). McGraw Hill.

Rich, N. (May 2010). For Whom the Cell Tolls. Harper's Magazine. http://harpers.org/archive/2010/05/0082932

Miller, P. (July 2007). The Genius of Swarms. The National Geographic. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/07/swarms/miller-text