A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense
Find Your Inner Chomsky

Baillargeon, Normand
Publisher:  Seven Stories Press
Year First Published:  {24074 A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense SHORT COURSE IN INTELLECTUAL SELF-DEFENSE Find Your Inner Chomsky Baillargeon, Normand Seven Stories Press What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through everyday spin and jargon -- from politics to advertising, from mysticism to news reporting. 2005 2008 336pp $18.50 BC24074s-IntellectualSelfDefense.jpg B Book 978-1-58322-765-7 BF441.B26413 2007 121'.6-dc22 - <br> <br> <br>Table of Contents <br> <br>Introduction <br> <br>Part One: Some Indispensable Tools for Critical Thinking <br> <br>1 Language <br>Introduction <br>1.1 Treacherous Words <br>1.2 The Art of Mental Trickery and Manipulation: Some Everyday Fallacies <br> <br>2 Mathematics: Those Who Refuse to Be Conned, Count! <br>Introduction <br>2.1 Treating Common Forms of Innumeracy <br>2.2 Probability and Statistics <br> <br>Part Two: On the Justification of Belief <br> <br>3 Personal Experience <br>Introduction <br>3.1 Perceiving <br>3.2 Remembering <br>3.3 Judging <br> <br>4 Empirical and Experimental Science <br>Introduction <br>4.1 Science and Experimentation <br>4.2 Science and Epistemology <br>4.3 A Few Questions for the Critical Reading of Research Results <br>4.4 The SEARCH Model <br> <br>5 The Media <br>Introduction <br>5.1 Another Kind of Democracy <br>5.2 The Propaganda Model of Media <br>5.3 Thirty-one Strategies for Fostering a Critical Approach to the Media <br> <br>Conclusion <br>Appendix: Independent Media Guide <br>Suggested Readings <br>Notes <br>About the Author <br>About Seven Stories Press CX9389 1 true true false CX9389.htm [0xc001e09230 0xc000314cf0 0xc0004650e0 0xc000465da0 0xc00056f4a0 0xc00059e360 0xc0006c7ad0 0xc000808a50 0xc000837b90 0xc000893710 0xc0002b7b90 0xc000ddba10 0xc0010e7ce0 0xc000608480 0xc00157f680 0xc0003efb00 0xc00149e870 0xc000c98180 0xc0016ddc80 0xc001a5fc20 0xc00019db90 0xc0008deb40 0xc000a19b60 0xc000bdcf30 0xc000f775f0 0xc001c301b0 0xc001cc4b70 0xc0023d5a10 0xc0026dc210 0xc0003aee40 0xc0003af380 0xc000d93ad0] Cx}
Year Published:  2008
Pages:  336pp   Price:  $18.50   ISBN:  978-1-58322-765-7
Library of Congress Number:  BF441.B26413 2007   Dewey:  121'.6-dc22
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX9389

What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through everyday spin and jargon -- from politics to advertising, from mysticism to news reporting.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: Some Indispensable Tools for Critical Thinking

1 Language
Introduction
1.1 Treacherous Words
1.2 The Art of Mental Trickery and Manipulation: Some Everyday Fallacies

2 Mathematics: Those Who Refuse to Be Conned, Count!
Introduction
2.1 Treating Common Forms of Innumeracy
2.2 Probability and Statistics

Part Two: On the Justification of Belief

3 Personal Experience
Introduction
3.1 Perceiving
3.2 Remembering
3.3 Judging

4 Empirical and Experimental Science
Introduction
4.1 Science and Experimentation
4.2 Science and Epistemology
4.3 A Few Questions for the Critical Reading of Research Results
4.4 The SEARCH Model

5 The Media
Introduction
5.1 Another Kind of Democracy
5.2 The Propaganda Model of Media
5.3 Thirty-one Strategies for Fostering a Critical Approach to the Media

Conclusion
Appendix: Independent Media Guide
Suggested Readings
Notes
About the Author
About Seven Stories Press

Subject Headings

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