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

Publisher:  Seven Stories Press
Year Published:  2008   First Published:  2005
Pages:  336pp   Price:  $18.50   ISBN:  978-1-58322-765-7
Library of Congress Number:  BF441.B26413 2007   Dewey:  121'.6-dc22

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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

• Belief
• Cognition
• Critical Reading
• Critical Thinking
• Democracy
• Democratic Values
• Epistemology
• Evidence
• Experts
• Falsifiability
• Hoaxes
• Irrationality
• Jargon
• Language
• Mathematics/Mathematical Sciences
• Media Analysis & Criticism
• Media Bias
• New Age
• Numeracy
• Paranormal Phenomena
• Political Correctness
• Probability Theory
• Propaganda
• Pseudoscience
• Reason
• Scams
• Science
• Skepticism
• Sources of Information
• Statistics Sources
• Statistics/Statistical Analysis
• Thinking