For courses in Critical Thinking, Informal Logic, Argumentative Writing, English Composition, Introduction to Logic, Philosophy, and Psychology. This text was written to give teachers and students a better and more comprehensive critical thinking text. The book contains selections from students and material on great and courageous thinkers like Aristotle, da Vinci, and Jung that can serve as models of inspiration.
Edited by John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), Thinking presents original ideas by today's leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who are radically expanding our ...
To this end, he argues in the final chapter against the possibility of scientific explanation of actions. The Act of Thinking opens up a large new area for philosophical research.
But in business, to be successful, you also have to be smart and creative. This book contains 60 pieces of distilled wisdom to help you think smartly and creatively, and to enable you to stand out from the others.
Making Thinking Visible offers educators research-based solutions for creating just such cultures of thinking. This innovative book unravels the mysteries of thinking and its connection to understanding and engagement.
Two-book set introducing Social Thinking Vocabulary concepts to upper elementary and middle school-age children
What beliefs are stopping you right now? You have a choice. You can create the world you want to live in, or live in a world created by others. If you are ready to start making changes, read this book."
In this long-overdue book, psychologist Julie Norem offers convincing evidence that, for many people, positive thinking is an ineffective strategy -- and often an obstacle -- for successfully coping with the anxieties and pressures of ...
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The central theme of the work is that the scientific study of human thinking must concentrate upon meaning and its achievement rather than upon the behaviorists' stimuli and responses and the presumed connections between them.
A child explains he is slow this morning because he is so busy thinking.