A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense: Find Your Inner ChomskySeven Stories Press, 04/01/2011 - 336 páginas What is the relationship between democracy and critical thinking? What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? In A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense, historian and educator Normand Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through the spin and jargon of everyday politics and news reporting in order to decide for themselves what is at stake and how to ask the necessary questions to protect themselves from the manipulations of the government and the media. Whether the issue be the call to what we’re told will be a bloodless war, the "debate" around Intelligent Design, or the meaning of a military expenditure, Baillargeon teaches readers to evaluate information and sort fact from official and media spin. |
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Página 13
... presenting , as simply and clearly as possible , the concepts and skills which seem to me to be necessary for every citizen to master . Here , then , is what you will find in this book . In the first part , entitled " Some Indispensable ...
... presenting , as simply and clearly as possible , the concepts and skills which seem to me to be necessary for every citizen to master . Here , then , is what you will find in this book . In the first part , entitled " Some Indispensable ...
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... presentation . The second part of the book , " On the Justification of Be- lief , " deals with this issue in three particular domains : per- sonal experience , science , and the media . In other words , we will try to clarify in what ...
... presentation . The second part of the book , " On the Justification of Be- lief , " deals with this issue in three particular domains : per- sonal experience , science , and the media . In other words , we will try to clarify in what ...
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... presented as a petition and passed to random people in various public places to sign . Each time , it was signed by many people — which obviously has no scientific value . Be that as it may , it is a good read , as you will see , and an ...
... presented as a petition and passed to random people in various public places to sign . Each time , it was signed by many people — which obviously has no scientific value . Be that as it may , it is a good read , as you will see , and an ...
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... Presented by the producers as an adventure full of twists and turns and suspense that recounts the events of an arctic expedition , the only sus- pense , for this writer , was in finding out whether he would manage to stay until the end ...
... Presented by the producers as an adventure full of twists and turns and suspense that recounts the events of an arctic expedition , the only sus- pense , for this writer , was in finding out whether he would manage to stay until the end ...
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... presentation . All the participants found it clear and stimulating ; none of them noticed that the talk was a mess of nonsense - which it was . Dr. Fox was actually an actor . He looked very distin- guished and spoke authoritatively and ...
... presentation . All the participants found it clear and stimulating ; none of them noticed that the talk was a mess of nonsense - which it was . Dr. Fox was actually an actor . He looked very distin- guished and spoke authoritatively and ...
Índice
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those Who refuse to | 87 |
On the JuStIfICatIOn Of belIef | 169 |
0420 | 199 |
the media | 267 |
Conclusion | 307 |
notes | 327 |
about Seven Stories | 335 |
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A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense: Find Your Inner Chomsky Normand Baillargeon Pré-visualização indisponível - 2008 |
A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense: Find Your Inner Chomsky Normand Baillargeon Pré-visualização indisponível - 2008 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 219 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Página 267 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Página 82 - He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side ; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.
Página 45 - I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't — till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knockdown argument for you!
Página 220 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish: and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the superior only gives us an assurance suitable to that degree of force, which remains, after deducting the inferior.
Página 45 - When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.
Página 220 - The plain consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), "That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it...
Página 22 - In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political parties.
Página 204 - ... certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof.
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Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind Daniel Tammet Pré-visualização limitada - 2009 |