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Critical Thinking Books
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 279 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.17 — 604,579 ratings — published 2011
The Art of Thinking Clearly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,255 ratings — published 2011
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.12 — 152,993 ratings — published 2021
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,954 ratings — published 1995
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,394 ratings — published 2008
Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,895 ratings — published 1981
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.35 — 204,786 ratings — published 2018
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,760 ratings — published 2016
Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 89 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,856 ratings — published 2023
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,453 ratings — published 2020
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,967 ratings — published 2018
Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,366 ratings — published 2000
A Rulebook for Arguments (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,286 ratings — published 1986
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.98 — 28,563 ratings — published 1940
The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,563 ratings — published 2019
The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,084 ratings — published 2012
Critical Thinking: Your Guide to Effective Argument, Successful Analysis and Independent Study (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.06 — 233 ratings — published
Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,190 ratings — published 2004
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 45 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.08 — 72,539 ratings — published 2001
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,726 ratings — published 2014
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,673 ratings — published 2007
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.97 — 632 ratings — published 1994
You Are Not So Smart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.86 — 36,399 ratings — published 2011
Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,822 ratings — published 2015
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,175 ratings — published 2008
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by (shelved 38 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,436 ratings — published 2007
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,932 ratings — published 2012
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,004 ratings — published 1997
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.96 — 627,457 ratings — published 2005
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,840 ratings — published 2018
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,828 ratings — published 2009
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts (Audiobook)
by (shelved 30 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,741 ratings — published 2018
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,703 ratings — published 2015
How to Lie with Statistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.84 — 18,398 ratings — published 1954
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,655 ratings — published 2008
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,197 ratings — published 1991
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,947 ratings — published 2012
Rationality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.84 — 6,602 ratings — published 2021
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,096 ratings — published 2021
Think Like a Freak (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,656 ratings — published 2014
Critical Thinking Skills (Palgrave Study Skills)
by (shelved 23 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.84 — 380 ratings — published 2005
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.01 — 905,675 ratings — published 2005
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.65 — 14,766 ratings — published 2014
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.97 — 52,841 ratings — published 2012
The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking-Concepts and Tools (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.84 — 766 ratings — published 1999
Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills (Audio CD)
by (shelved 21 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,297 ratings — published
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.82 — 24,417 ratings — published 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,299,736 ratings — published 2011
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,264 ratings — published 2013
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as critical-thinking)
avg rating 3.84 — 96,050 ratings — published 2008
“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.”
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“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.”
― Sceptical Essays
― Sceptical Essays
