You´ve Got To Be Kidding!: How Jokes Can Help You Think
John Capps
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Description for You´ve Got To Be Kidding!: How Jokes Can Help You Think
Hardback. You've Got to Be Kidding!: How Jokes Can Help You Think focuses on a single, core issue at the heart of philosophy: our ability to think critically. The authors, a father and son team of distinguished professors, aren't kidding around when they show us that jokes illustrate the various ways in which the thinking process goes awry. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPL; HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
You've Got to Be Kidding!: How Jokes Can Help You Think is a thoughtful and accessible analysis of the ways in which jokes illustrate how we think critically, and how the thinking process goes awry in everyday human situations.
- Uses jokes to illustrate the various mistakes or fallacies that are typically identified and discussed in courses on critical reasoning
- Provides an effective way to learn critical thinking skills since jokes often describe real-life situations where it really matters whether a person thinks well or not
- Demonstrates how philosophy is actually very practical and clearly related to real- life human experiences
- Explains how developing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405196659
SKU
V9781405196659
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About John Capps
John Capps is an associate professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Senior Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He has written many articles on the history of American philosophy, pragmatism, and science education. Donald Capps is a professor in psychology of religion at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of more than 20 books, including ... Read more
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