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TTC Video & Audio - Steven Novella - Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=9344
In this critically fascinating course, Steven Novella, helps you to think more critically about science, claims people make, products, the world and yourself mostly. He sums it up as "metacognition" where you think about your own thinking. He wants you to observe yourself from the outside and observe your thoughts and critically ask yourself if you are not deceiving yourself. He talks about different ways we go about this!
In this amazingly exciting course you will learn our most common cognitive biases, pitfalls in thinking and reasoning, how our emotions influence what want to belief and so on. You will also learn some scam and pseudoscience to avoid at all costs. Most importantly, you will learn to think more critically about thinking so you can think more critically! :-D
I found this course as I first found his Myths about health and then found his amazingly Podcast. I actually bought his second course cause I couldn't wait for it. THAT is how good his Podcast in the long run is. It made me to respond to the social power of reciprocity!
Feel free to either download video, audio or both of them!
Make sure you also check out his FREE weekly Podcast (the chick there sounds as if she is hot but she is a geek chick but still sexy voice, hah):
http://theskepticsguide.org/archive/podcast.aspx?mid=1