
The Six Secrets of Intelligence
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I: NOT THINKING
- A Brief History of Not Thinking
- What to Think, Not How to Think
- A New World of Intellectual Possibility
- PART II: THINKING
- Secret 1: Deduction: How to See Through Arguments
- The Power of Deduction
- The Dubious Deduction: A Likely Story
- The Hidden Heart of Argument
- Judo, Not Karate
- Kick the Soapbox
- Real-Life Deduction
- Secret 2: Induction: How to Make or Break a Theory
- Do You See The Signs?
- Backwards Thinking: The Case of The Fallible Sign
- Backseat Thinking: Don't Jump to Conclusions
- Real-Life Induction
- Secret 3: Analogy: A Sign of Genius
- Simple Comparisons, Simple Labels
- Complex Comparisons: The Argument from Analogy
- Real-Life Analogy
- Secrets 4, 5 & 6: Reality, Evidence and Meaning: How to Think Like a Philosopher
- Get Real: Ideas are Not Things
- Made-Up and Meaningless: How to Spot Pseudoscience
- Politics: How to Fight a War of Words
- If Only Truth Were Simple: The Three Questions You Can't Ignore
- Real-Life Philosophical Thinking
- PART III: THINKING ABOUT THINKING
- The Modern School of Thought
- The Data Delusion: Frequently Wrong and Naturally Oblivious
- The Power of Abstract Ideas
- PART IV: THINKING ABOUT EDUCATION
- Closed Minds and Fragile Egos: Where Did We Go Wrong?
- What We Believe about Intelligence is Wrong: Why Misunderstanding our Minds is Intellectually Disempowering
- Taking Turns to Shout at Each Other: Why an Understanding, Freethinking Society is Impossible without Philosophical Thinking
- The Silver Bullet: Why Schools Don't Teach Us to Think
- The Limits of Thinking
- PART V: A SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
- The Way it is: On The Intelligence, Education and Happiness of Human Beings
- The Minds We Have, The Lives We Live
- The Spirit of a Society, The Mind of a Species
- The Principles of Intellectual Education and the Modern Misunderstanding of the Mind
- Sounding the Alarm: Consequences
- What is Worth Learning, or A Theory of Education
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Copyright
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