Thinking Matters
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Thinking Matters
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Author : Selma Wassermann
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2024-03-06
Thinking Matters written by Selma Wassermann and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-06 with Education categories.
Making decisions intelligently, rationally and with a sense of personal investment requires a considerable degree of critical thinking. To choose badly based on disinformation or high emotionality, rather than on the intelligent interpretation of data, leads us down a path from which there is often no safe return. Thomas Jefferson wrote that a well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to democracy. That is why one of the most important attributes for citizenship in that democracy is our ability to use intelligent habits of mind to interpret data, to distill disinformation from sound information, to use the best information to make sound and rational decisions to solve the many complex and varied problems that arise. Thinking Matters: A Guide to Making Wiser and More Thoughtful Decisions offers readers an opportunity to examine what it means to use intelligent habits of mind to make wise, rational and informed choices, and deal more logically with problems that impact their lives.
Thinking Matters Critical Thinking As Creative Problem Solving
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Author : Gary R Mar
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2021-08-10
Thinking Matters Critical Thinking As Creative Problem Solving written by Gary R Mar and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-10 with Education categories.
The ancient Roman orator Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) wrote, 'Control your mind or it will control you.' In today's society we are faced with more information, and more complex information, than ever. Faced with making decisions, we can feel overwhelmed and helpless. One way to become less helpless — to gain control over our lives — is to gain control over our own thinking. We can feel helpless when faced with this barrage of information, opinions, data, and conflicting arguments if we lack the skills to quickly grasp and critically evaluate them. This book is designed to impart these kinds of skills.Any course in a university should do more than teach information — in nearly every field, 'facts' become obsolete quickly. The goals of Thinking Matters are to help you: The text is punctuated with exercises or 'personal experiments' to challenge and stimulate your curiosity. These exercises may take the form of an inventory to be taken, a puzzle to be solved, or some thoughts to ponder.The first module Thinking Matters: Critical Thinking as Creative Problem Solving introduces the student to all the above topics — logic, probability, argument forms and fallacies, ethical reasoning, algorithms, and computational thinking — through logic puzzles and games and mathematical magic tricks.
Living Life As If Thinking Matters
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Author : R. L. Wysong
language : en
Publisher: Inquiry Press
Release Date : 2000-09
Living Life As If Thinking Matters written by R. L. Wysong and has been published by Inquiry Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Living Life as if Thinking Matters Why dissent is crucial to health, happiness, hope, and a better world This is a book about living life better and solving its dilemmas by putting thinking ahead of popular beliefs. We are all born on the starting line of life with blank mental slates. Then each of us has our mind filled in by parents, schools, peers, and experts. The result is a society stuffed with given beliefs, none of which we own, andas you will learn in this bookmost of which are wrong. Although important questions are often debated, there seems to be no satisfying solutions. Instead, shortsighted agendas prevail, money dictates decisions, and ethics seems a thing of the past. We all sense this misdirection and can feel helpless as the world spirals out of control. Since ultimately everything in life happens because of the way we think, solutions depend upon thinking too. That does not mean playing the victim and relying on others, but reaching within to see the sense, goodness, and direction that lie there. Dr. Wysong helps readers tap into their unlimited resources and take control. All of lifes important topics are discussed in this encyclopedic, wise, and helpful book, including: how to achieve optimal health, think correctly about politics, family, love, sex, the environment, economics, government, and social issues, and how to self-improve and cultivate conscience. If you would like to understand life better, be healthier, happier, have meaning, contribute to a better world, and avoid some bumps and bruises along the way, this is your guidebook.
Thinking Matter
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Author : Joseph S. Catalano
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-06-01
Thinking Matter written by Joseph S. Catalano and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-01 with Philosophy categories.
Thinking Matter is an original and provocative look at the nature of consciousness. While many contemporary philosophers have downplayed the significance of the body and subscribed to a brain/body dualism in human consciousness, Joseph S. Catalano argues that it is the entire fleshy body that thinks; the body of the dancer, the hands of the writer, and the eyes of the reader are not merely instruments of thought, but forms of thought itself. Calling for a thorough rethinking of philosophic traditions from Aristotle to Sartre, Catalano offers a holistic view of the bodily nature of consciousness--one that focuses on the total organic body rather than the brain alone.
Thinking Matter
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Author : John W. Yolton
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1984-02-14
Thinking Matter written by John W. Yolton and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-02-14 with Philosophy categories.
Thinking Matter was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This book, a reevaluation of a major issue in modern philosophy, explores the controversy that grew out of John Locke's suggestion, in the Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), that God could give to matter the power of thought. The concept of "thinking matter," as Locke's notion came to be described, offered a threat to those who held orthodox beliefs, especially to their views on the nature and immortality of the soul. In Thinking Matter,John Yolton traces this controversy from theologian Ralph Cudworth's 1678 manifesto, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein, All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated — an attack on ancient versions of naturalism—down to the philosophical and scientific studies of Joseph Priestley in the late eighteenth century.
Thinking Things Through Second Edition
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Author : Clark Glymour
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2015-04-10
Thinking Things Through Second Edition written by Clark Glymour and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-10 with Philosophy categories.
The second edition of a unique introductory text, offering an account of the logical tradition in philosophy and its influence on contemporary scientific disciplines. Thinking Things Through offers a broad, historical, and rigorous introduction to the logical tradition in philosophy and its contemporary significance. It is unique among introductory philosophy texts in that it considers both the historical development and modern fruition of a few central questions. It traces the influence of philosophical ideas and arguments on modern logic, statistics, decision theory, computer science, cognitive science, and public policy. The text offers an account of the history of speculation and argument, and the development of theories of deductive and probabilistic reasoning. It considers whether and how new knowledge of the world is possible at all, investigates rational decision making and causality, explores the nature of mind, and considers ethical theories. Suggestions for reading, both historical and contemporary, accompany most chapters. This second edition includes four new chapters, on decision theory and causal relations, moral and political theories, “moral tools” such as game theory and voting theory, and ethical theories and their relation to real-world issues. Examples have been updated throughout, and some new material has been added. It is suitable for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate classes in philosophy, and as an ancillary text for students in computer science and the natural sciences.
Thinking Things Over The Reflections Of Two 80 Year Olds
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Author : Charles Francis Guittard
language : en
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
Release Date : 2024-03-01
Thinking Things Over The Reflections Of Two 80 Year Olds written by Charles Francis Guittard and has been published by First Edition Design Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
What can happen when an 80-year-old Dallas widower meets an 80-year-old Austin widow and they discover they have a lot in common? Several things, one right after another. They start emailing and texting each other, telling each other their stories from eight decades of living apart; then, in a matter of weeks, deciding to get married, and, soon after, resolving to tell a broader audience the stories they had been telling each other. Front and center is their courtship experience itself told through their emails, combined with Charles and Nancy’s separate accounts of growing up. Charles details his parents’ attempts to polish him and wise him up about sex; his efforts to combat his social anxiety; stories about lassos, bullwhips, and crossbows; one disastrous bridge game and a biology science project gone wrong; and tortured therapeutic sessions with pediatric nurses, orthodontists, and dermatologists. Nancy’s separately chronicles her efforts competing at tennis, swimming, and singing; relationships that went nowhere; days as a civil rights protester; moments as a college prankster; slow-dancing with a boy wearing contact lenses; the family dog that ate a chicken; and her adventure at the laundromat. Finally, for those who are really thinking things over, wondering about the hereafter, a sobering fantasy of a final judgment day concludes this memoir.
Thinking Christianity
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Author : Daniel Klassen
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2019-01-14
Thinking Christianity written by Daniel Klassen and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-14 with Religion categories.
Throughout Church history, a lack of clear thought has been the chief cause of heresy: wherever indifference to doctrine and theology has arisen, neglect and rejection have soon followed. Christianity today faces a crisis in thinking: there is both an indifference toward, and neglect of, serious thought about Christian doctrine and theology. Instead, personal experience has been given primacy. Thinking Christianity attempts to reverse this popular attitude and forestall the rejection of the Christian gospel that will otherwise inevitably follow. Author Daniel Klassen covers two aspects of thinking in the Christian faith: the necessity for thinking, and the need for proper thinking. Addressing the first aspect, he answers questions such as “Why should Christians think?”, “Is faith reasonable and rational?”, “How do we know God?”, and “How do we know the truth?”. Addressing the second aspect, he explores foundational beliefs for the Christian faith, covering questions such as, “What is salvation?”, “What is sanctification?”, How do we gain assurance?”, and “What does it mean to worship God?”. Throughout the book, he attempts to answer these questions with clarity and truthfulness by expounding Scripture, using historical examples from the Reformation, and exploring philosophical ideas. This clearly reasoned, timely book will help Christians live in assurance and confidence in God—and preserve the gospel for future generations.
Thinking About The Enlightenment
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Author : Martin L. Davies
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-31
Thinking About The Enlightenment written by Martin L. Davies and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-31 with History categories.
Thinking about the Enlightenment looks beyond the current parameters of studying the Enlightenment, to the issues that can be understood by reflecting on the period in a broader context. Each of the thirteen original chapters, by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, illustrates the problematic legacy of the Enlightenment and the continued ramifications of its thinking since the eighteenth century. Together, they consider whether modernity can see its roots in the intellectual revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The collection is divided into six sections, preceded by a comprehensive introduction to the field and the most recent scholarship on the period. Across the sections, the contributors consider modern day encounters with Enlightenment thinking, including Kant’s moral philosophy, the conflict between reason and faith, the significance of the Enlightenment of law and the gender inequality that persisted throughout the eighteenth century. By examining specific encounters with the problematic results of Enlightenment concerns, the contributors are able to illuminate and offer new perspectives on topics such as human nature, race, politics, gender and rationality. Drawing from history, philosophy, literature and anthropology, this book enables students and academics alike to take a fresh look at the Enlightenment and its legacy in the modern world.
Design Thinking For A Greener Tomorrow
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Author : Voja Malenkovic
language : en
Publisher: FIVE POCKET publishing
Release Date : 2024-12-07
Design Thinking For A Greener Tomorrow written by Voja Malenkovic and has been published by FIVE POCKET publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-07 with Computers categories.
Design shapes the world around us, from the buildings we inhabit to the products we use daily. But in the face of climate change, resource scarcity, and shifting cultural values, design must evolve to meet the challenges of a more sustainable future. In Design Thinking for a Greener Tomorrow - Sustainable Vision, Voja—a creative head and multidisciplinary designer—takes you on an inspiring journey through the vast world of design. This book examines how fields like architecture, fashion, product design, graphic design, and more are being reimagined to align with sustainable principles. Packed with compelling insights, actionable strategies, and real-world case studies, this book offers a comprehensive overview of design thinking as a tool for innovation and positive impact. It highlights trailblazing examples, from energy-efficient buildings to modular products and zero-waste fashion, providing readers with a roadmap for creativity, innovation, and responsibility. Whether you’re a professional designer, a student, or someone passionate about shaping a better future, Sustainable Vision invites you to explore how design can create solutions that are not only functional and beautiful but also kind to the planet. The future of design is here—and it’s sustainable. Will you be part of the change?