14
Science and the Supernatural
Lecture no. 14 from the course: Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills
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Taught by Professor Steven Novella | 30 min | Categories: Professional & Personal Growth
What are we to make of "supernatural" issues such as the existence of ghosts and the possibility of miracles? Approach these and other topics from a critical thinker's perspective. Along the way, examine the deeper issue at work here: what is-and what should be-the relationship between science and the belief in things we can't see.
24 Lectures
1
The Necessity of Thinking about Thinking
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of 33 min
2
The Neuroscience of Belief
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of 35 min
3
Errors of Perception
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of 33 min
4
Flaws and Fabrications of Memory
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of 33 min
5
Pattern Recognition-Seeing What's Not There
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of 33 min
6
Our Constructed Reality
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of 34 min
7
The Structure and Purpose of Argument
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of 33 min
8
Logic and Logical Fallacies
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of 32 min
9
Heuristics and Cognitive Biases
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of 34 min
10
Poor at Probability-Our Innate Innumeracy
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of 31 min
11
Toward Better Estimates of What's Probable
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of 30 min
12
Culture and Mass Delusions
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of 32 min
13
Philosophy and Presuppositions of Science
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of 30 min
14
Science and the Supernatural
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of 30 min
15
Varieties and Quality of Scientific Evidence
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of 32 min
16
Great Scientific Blunders
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of 31 min
17
Science versus Pseudoscience
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of 33 min
18
The Many Kinds of Pseudoscience
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of 34 min
19
The Trap of Grand Conspiracy Thinking
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of 30 min
20
Denialism-Rejecting Science and History
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of 30 min
21
Marketing, Scams, and Urban Legends
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of 31 min
22
Science, Media, and Democracy
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of 29 min
23
Experts and Scientific Consensus
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of 29 min
24
Critical Thinking and Science in Your Life
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of 32 min
