Capps You've Got To Be Kidding!

How Jokes Can Help You Think
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0790-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten, E-Book

You've Got to Be Kidding!: How Jokes Can Help You Think is athoughtful and accessible analysis of the ways in which jokesillustrate how we think critically, and how the thinking processgoes awry in everyday human situations
* Uses jokes to illustrate the various mistakes or fallaciesthat are typically identified and discussed in courses on criticalreasoning
* Provides an effective way to learn critical thinking skillssince jokes often describe real-life situations where it reallymatters whether a person thinks well or not
* Demonstrates how philosophy is actually very practical andclearly related to real- life human experiences
* Explains how developing good reasoning habits can make a realdifference in all aspects of one's life

Autoren/Hrsg.

Capps, John

Capps, Donald

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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