"Good reasoning can lead to success; bad reasoning can lead to catastrophe. Yet it's not obvious how we reason, and why we make mistakes - so much of our mental life goes on outside our awareness. In recent years huge strides have been made into developing a scientific understan…
"In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us that math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do--the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and cha…
"Muslims have always used verses from the Qur'an to support opinions on law, theology, or life in general, but almost no attention has been paid to how the Qur'an presents its own precepts as conclusions proceeding from reasoned arguments. Whether it is a question of God's power…
"Judgment pervades human experience. Do I have a strong enough case to go to trial? Will the Fed change interest rates? Can I trust this person? This book examines how, and how well, people answer such questions. The study of human judgment was transformed in the 1970s when Kahn…
"Judgment pervades human experience. Do I have a strong enough case to go to trial? Will the Fed change interest rates? Can I trust this person? This book examines how, and how well, people answer such questions. The study of human judgment was transformed in the 1970s when Kahn…
« Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal remercient de leur soutien financier le Conseil des Arts du Canada et la Société de développement des entreprises culturelles du Québec (SODEC). [...] On peut aussi recourir à un très long raisonnement pour soutenir un point de vue sur u…
Synthèse des concepts et habiletés dont la maîtrise est nécessaire pour accéder à la pensée critique. Survol des outils à utiliser : le langage, la logique, la rhétorique, les nombres, les probabilités, la statistique, etc. Application de ceux-ci à la justification des croyances…
Synthèse des concepts et habiletés dont la maîtrise est nécessaire pour accéder à la pensée critique. Survol des outils à utiliser : le langage, la logique, la rhétorique, les nombres, les probabilités, la statistique, etc. Application de ceux-ci à la justification des croyances…
This treatise offers a new solution to the famous puzzle of the so-called "gymnastic" half of Plato's "Parmenides". The author shows that the work serves to introduce a metaphysics which had outgrown problems commonlyassociated with Plato's middle dialogues, creating a bridge to…
