Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense Find Your Inner Chomsky

Name: Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense Find Your Inner Chomsky
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ISBN: 9781583227657

ISBN-10: 1583227652

ISBN-13: 9781583227657

Edition: 2007

Authors: Normand Baillargeon, Andrea Schmidt, Charb

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"My personal feeling is that citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self-defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for more meaningful democracy."-Noam Chomsky "Exercising intellectual self-defense is an act of citizenship. It is what has motivated me to write this little book, which offers exactly this: an introduction to critical thinking."-Normand Baillargeon 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, radical pedagogue Normand Baillargeon trains readers…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 2/5/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.03" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Normand Baillargeon is the author of several prior books of critical thinking. He teaches education at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada and is a regular contributor to Le Couac newspaper and A Babord magazine.



Introduction



Some Indispensable Tools for Critical Thinking



Language


Introduction



Tracherous Words



The Art of Mental Trickery and Manipulation: Some Everyday Fallacies



Mathematics: Those Who Refuse to Be Conned, Count!


Introduction



Treating Common Forms of Innumeracy



Probability and Statistics



On the Justification of Belief



Personal Experience


Introduction



Perceiving



Remembering



Judging



Empirical and Experimental Science


Introduction



Science and Experimentation



Science and Epistemology



A Few Questions for the Critical Reading of Research Results



The SEARCH Model



The Media


Introduction



Another Kind of Democracy



The Propaganda Model of Media



Thirty-one Strategies for Fostering a Critical Approach to the Media


Conclusion



Independent Media Guide


Suggested Readings


Notes


About the Author


About Seven Stories Press