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The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room

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The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room

The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room
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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—to say nothing of advertisers and politicians who want to convince us with half-truths and empty rhetoric.

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 offers the skills to do just that. Taught by award-winning Professor Patrick Grim of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, this applied philosophy course 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, from the office to the voting booth.

Unlike courses in other disciplines, which are descriptive, this course is normative.
That is, instead of merely describing how we do think, the focus of this course is how we should think. Along the way, you’ll meet some of history’s greatest thinkers, from Plato and Aristotle to Einstein and John von Neumann. In addition to looking at what they thought, you’ll study how they thought—what strategies did they employ to come up with their great ideas? What tools can we adopt to make us better thinkers?

With a blend of theoretical and hands-on learning, these 24 stimulating lectures will sharpen your critical thinking skills and get the creative juices flowing with such topics as

the symbiotic role of reason and emotion;
conceptual visualization and thinking with models;
Aristotle’s logic and the flow of arguments;
heuristics and psychological biases;
polarization and negotiation strategies;
advertising and statistics; and
decision theory and game theory.

Study What You Didn’t Learn in School

Philosophy provides the foundations for an array of other intellectual fields. As Professor Grim explains, philosophy—“the love of wisdom”—is historically the core discipline of them all. Other fields have branched out from it over the centuries. And while we learn in school about these other disciplines—including mathematics, physics, economics, psychology, and sociology—the material in The Philosopher’s Toolkit is seldom taught, and has never been taught in quite this way.

But the material should be taught because it has an amazing, practical value. Whether you’re trying to decide which wine to bring to a dinner party or weighing the sides of a political debate, these lectures will help you think more rationally so that you can always make the optimal choice. In this course, you’ll

build problem-solving skills for greater efficiency at work;
become a savvier consumer by staying alert to common advertising tricks;
learn heuristics to make better decisions in a pinch;
and develop self-knowledge through awareness of built-in cognitive biases.

In addition to illuminating rational thinking, this course sheds new light on all the fields you studied in school. Professor Grim says that philosophy is best practiced with an eye to other disciplines, what he calls the children and grandchildren of philosophy. For example, when Pythagoras came up with his famous theorem about right triangles, he didn’t have a geometry textbook full of equations. Rather, he employed visualization, looking at literal squares to calculate areas.

To take another example, one of the most important ideas in the history of physics—special relativity—is a remarkably simple concept to visualize, but it took a visual thinker like Einstein to discover it. No matter what the field, The Philosopher’s Toolkit provides the clarity and insight necessary for success.

Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition

Reason & Faith: Philosophy in the Middle Ages

Practical Philosophy: The Greco-Roman Moralists

Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions

Masters of Greek Thought: Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle

Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition

No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life

Great Philosophical Debates: Free Will and Determinism

Immanuel Kant and Philosophy Book Collection

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The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room

The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room

The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room

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