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Tools of Thinking: Understanding the World Through Experience and Reason
- De: James Hall, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: James Hall
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 99
Everyone has to think in order to function in the world, but what is the best way to reason effectively in your pursuit of reliable beliefs and useful knowledge? What is the best way to prove a case, create a rule, solve a problem, justify an idea, invent a hypothesis, or evaluate an argument? In short, what is the best way to think? Professor Hall helps you cut through deception and faulty reasoning in these 24 humorous, clear, and interesting lectures, offering a friendly but intellectually rigorous approach to the problem of thinking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- De Douglas en 08-18-13
This course is too much based on superstition
Revisado: 08-18-13
Would you try another book from The Great Courses and/or Professor James Hall?
The Great Courses concept is fine by me, but Professor James Hall's insight on taking superstition as an equal part of rational reasoning with (scientific) facts, is just way too much for me - and thus I lost the interest to this book within 2 hours.
Has Tools of Thinking: Understanding the World Through Experience and Reason turned you off from other books in this genre?
No. As long as I don't have to listen to James Hall's opinions.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
He clearly has a theological hidden agenda.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disappointment.
Any additional comments?
I might listen through the whole book after a while... maybe there is some true substance in this book - as its title suggests.
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The Magic of Reality
- How We Know What's Really True
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,261
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,942
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,922
Richard Dawkins, the world’s most famous evolutionary biologist, presents a gorgeously lucid, science book examining some of the nature’s most fundamental questions both from a mythical and scientific perspective. Science is our most precise and powerful tool for making sense of the world. Before we developed the scientific method, we created rich mythologies to explain the unknown. The pressing questions that primitive men and women asked are the same ones we ask as children. Who was the first person? What is the sun? Why is there night and day?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audio version is superb for us grown-ups
- De Michael Dowd en 10-10-11
- The Magic of Reality
- How We Know What's Really True
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
Science vs. Superstition
Revisado: 04-16-12
What made the experience of listening to The Magic of Reality the most enjoyable?
The author, Dr. Richard Dawkins, reads the book.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
I found the story of the rainbow, i.e. why we see colors and how the science behind it reveals the cosmic reality, the best part of the book.
What aspect of Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward ’s performance would you have changed?
More references to further reading and exploring of the contextual subjects.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No. Have never had a need (urge) to do so.
Any additional comments?
The quality of the cover image of the audiobooks are usually very low. This said, would there be any technological solution, which would able readers to see images, which are in the book, e.g. graphs etc?
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