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Thinking is at the heart of our everyday lives, yet our thinking can go wrong in any number of ways. Bad arguments, fallacious reasoning, misleading language, and built-in cognitive biases are all traps that keep us from rational decision making. What can we do to avoid these traps and think better? Is it possible to think faster, more efficiently, and more systematically?

The Philosopher’s Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room, taught by award-winning Professor Patrick Grim of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, arms you against the perils of bad thinking and supplies you with an arsenal of strategies to help you be more creative, logical, inventive, realistic, and rational in all aspects of your daily life.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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where can I get the videos the lecturer keep referencing? Did I miss a link or something?

am I missing something

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With how often it refers to visual services I am disappointed in audible. I think the lectures are set out very well, amazingly even, but I can’t get past the constant reference to videos that I cannot access. I’ve rated it well because some people can get past this, but it’s not for me

Shouldn’t be an audiobook

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Amazing book for anyone dipping their toe into philosophy for the first time. The word 'lecture' usually conjures up images of stuffy classrooms and struggling to stay awake, but I lapped this up chapter after chapter. Set out for the layman, and very easy to understand. I will definitely be revisiting this book. Very enjoyable.

Loved it.

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For those confused you can see the diagrams in the accompanying pdf in the chapter list.
I really enjoyed this audiobook it was easy to follow, the examples were relevant and I think I can apply much of this to real life. I liked the practical applications and the short introduction to philoophers in thier historical context. really fascinating.

the PDF is in the chapter list

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I enjoyed this more than I can say. Fascinating, thoughtful, challenging in parts and always crammed with an entire spectrum of insights. I certainly expect to be dipping into it again in the near future but i’mme thinking for a long while.

Time well spent

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