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Books

Barbour, Ian (2000) When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners? Harper Collins

Dewey, John (1997) How we Think, Dover Publications

Fleck, Ludwik (1935) Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact, University of Chicago Press

Gardner, Martin (1991) New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher, Prometheus Books

Gross, Paul and Norman Levitt (1994) Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, Johns Hopkins University Press

Gross, Paul; Norman Levitt, & Martin Lewis eds. (1996) The Flight from Science and Reason, The New York Academy of Sciences

Hoodbhoy, Pervez (1992) Islam and Science: Religious Orhodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, S. Abdul Majeed & Co, Distributed by Outlet Book Distributors

Huff, Darrell (19xx) How to Lie with Statistics

Mannheim, Karl (1936) Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction o the Sociology of Knowledge, Harcourt, Inc. Paulos, John (1995) A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, Penguin Books

Phillips, John (2000) Contexted Knowledge: A Guide to Critical Theory, Zed Books

Rowntree, Derek (1981) Statistics without Tears: A Primer for Non-Mathematicians, Charles Scribner’s Sons (also available in Penguin)

Ruchlis, Hy (1991) How do you Know it’s True? Discovering the Difference Between Science and Superstition, Prometheus Books

Shermer, Michael (2002) Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, A.WH Freeman

Sokal, Alan & Jean Bricmont (1998) Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals Abuse of Science, Picador

Ziman, John (1991) Reliable Knowledge: An Exploration of the Grounds for Belief in Science, Cambridge University Press.

Book Chapters

Babbie, Earl (1986) Observing Ourselves: Essays in Social Research, Wadsworth Publishing Company (See Chapter 12: Critical Thinking)

Books | Book Chapters