Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history

24 Lectures / 30 minutes per lecture

Disc 1. Lecture 1. How we think and how to think better -- Lecture 2. Cool rationality and hot thought -- Lecture 3. The strategy of visualization -- Lecture 4. Visualizing concepts and propositions -- Lecture 5. The power of thought experiment -- Lecture 6. Thinking like Aristotle -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Ironclad, airtight validity -- Lecture 8. Thinking outside the box -- Lecture 10. The flow of arguments -- Lecture 11. Why we make mistakes -- Lecture 12. Rational discussion in a polarized context -- Disc.3. Lecture 13. Rhetoric versus rationality -- Lecture 14. Bogus arguments and how to defuse them -- Lecture 15. The great debate -- Lecture 16. Outwitting the advertiser -- Lecture 17. Putting a spin on statistics -- Lecture 18. Poker, probability, and everyday life --Disc.4. Lecture 19. Decisions, decisions -- Lecture 20. Thinking scientifically -- Lecture 21. Put it to the test - beautiful experiments -- Lecture 22. Game theory and beyond -- Lecture 23. Thinking with models -- Lecture 24. Lessons from the great thinkers

"Professor Grim's work spans ethics, logic, game theory, philosophy of science, and contemporary metaphysics."

Taught by : Professor Patrick Grim, State University of New York at Stony Brook

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