The End of Thinking?

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- About the Author -- Contents -- Introduction: One Night in Tennessee -- What were you thinking? -- 1. A Thousand Ways to Fall -- Philosophy -- Psychology -- Statistics -- A better way to fail -- 2. No, You're Not Entitled to Your Opinion -- Just the facts? -- You know what I think -- Ideas are power -- The problem of disrespect -- A better way to share opinions -- 3. Putting Experts in Their Place -- Everybody's an expert -- Putting too much faith in experts -- A better expertise: The value of intellectual humility -- 4. Finding Confidence, Not Certainty -- The way to confidence -- The advantages of confidence -- A better confidence: Intellectual courage -- 5. The Character of a Thinker: Humility, Hospitality, Love -- The virtue of thinking -- Humility -- Hospitality -- Love -- Conclusion: Confessions of an Imperfect Friend -- Notes.

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