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A short course in intellectual self-defense A short course in intellectual self-defense Normand Baillargeon 335 pages : 21 cm OL12177332W
This sentence is false This sentence is false Peter Cave Surveys paradoxes in philosophy, thinking, and language. OL15022527W
The hidden valley The hidden valley Felicia Law After landing on a remote and seemingly deserted island, a disparate group of shipwrecked monkeys, unaware that they are being watched by the monkey rulers of the island, tries to use its reasoning a… OL15082702W
Fallacies and Argument Appraisal Fallacies and Argument Appraisal Christopher W Tindale Fallacies and Argument Appraisal presents an introduction to the nature, identification, and causes of fallacious reasoning, along with key questions for evaluation. Drawing from the latest work on f… OL15188091W
Examkrackers MCAT Examkrackers MCAT David Orsay "Fourteen 60-minute full-length practice MCAT verbal exams in the new MCAT format ... [with] 2,240 detailed explanations for all answer choices--P. [4] of cover. OL15963617W
Academically Adrift Academically Adrift Richard Arum,Josipa Roksa A statistical analysis of survey responses, transcript data, and the Collegiate Learning Assessment to determine how well students learn during their first few years of college. The analysis shows a… OL16092689W
Thinking socratically Thinking socratically Sharon Schwarze xv, 320 p. : 23 cm OL16518033W
Emotional minds Emotional minds Sabrina Ebbersmeyer The thoroughly contemporary question of the relationship between emotion and reason was debated with such complexity by the philosophers of the 17th century that their concepts remain a source of ins… OL16704706W
Advances in Cognitive Systems Advances in Cognitive Systems Institution of Engineering and Technology The book has 17 chapters and deals with the following subjects: cognitive robotics system; adaptive systems; dynamical enactive cognitive architecture; cooperative decision model; virtual humans; neu… OL16937895W
Symbolic and quantitative approaches to reasoning with uncertainty Symbolic and quantitative approaches to reasoning with uncertainty Salem Benferhat,Philippe Besnard Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty: 6th European Conference, ECSQARU 2001 Toulouse, France, September 19–21, 2001 Proceedings<br />Author: Salem Benferhat, Philippe Be… OL16970475W
Fundamental uncertainty Fundamental uncertainty Silva Marzetti Dall'Aste Brandolini,Roberto Scazzieri The subject of decision theory under non-standard uncertainty has become increasingly pertinent in many disciplines today. This volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the concepts and theories… OL16974609W
Excellent Sheep Excellent Sheep William Deresiewicz This book is a groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation's top schools should be -- but aren't -- providing: "The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless … OL17364755W
Future Logic Future Logic Avi Sion Future Logic is an original and wide-ranging treatise of formal logic. It deals with deduction and induction, of categorical and conditional propositions, involving the natural, temporal, extensional… OL17626065W
Weaponized Lies Weaponized Lies Daniel J. Levitin It's raining fringe theories, fake news, and pseudo-facts. These lies are getting repeated. New York Times bestselling author Daniel Levitin shows how to disarm these socially devastating inventions … OL18012168W
Belief Change Belief Change Didier Dubois Belief change is an emerging field of artificial intelligence and information science dedicated to the dynamics of information and the present book provides a state-of-the-art picture of its formal f… OL19830402W
Cognition, Agency and Rationality Cognition, Agency and Rationality Kepa Korta As usual, the Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Cognitive Science include leading-edge work by outstanding researchers in the field. This volume contains three kinds of papers correspond… OL19835145W
Reasoning with Complex Cases Reasoning with Complex Cases Friedrich Gebhardt Reasoning with Complex Cases emphasizes case retrieval methods based on structured cases as they are relevant for planning, configuration, and design, and provides a systematic view of the case reuse… OL19898816W
Mathematical reasoning workbook for the GED test Mathematical reasoning workbook for the GED test McGraw-Hill Education (Firm) This workbook offers skillbuilding exercises in all the mathematics topics that you will encounter on the test. You also get samples of the latest question types and a posttest closely modeled on the… OL19983279W
MCAT verbal practice MCAT verbal practice Bryan Schnedeker "MCAT Verbal Practice provides you with the most extensive practice available for the MCAT's new Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills section. these passages have been arranged in one dozen timed p… OL20038286W
Being hurt and hurting others Being hurt and hurting others Cecilia Wainryb "Documents the narrative accounts and moral evaluations that children between the ages of 5 and 16 made of incidents in which they had been the targets of their peers' unfair or harmful actions and i… OL20657137W
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