Philosophy 210:
For Further Reading
 
 

Here are some interesting and fun-to-read books related to a few of the topics discussed in class. None of these is required or expected for the course, but if you are curious about a topic and would like to explore it some more, these are some fun places to start.

Abducted - How People Come To Believe They Were Kidnapped By Aliens by Susan A. Clancy, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005).

Crimes Against Logic by Jamie Whyte, (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2005).

The Demon-Haunted World - Science As A Candle In The Dark by Carl Sagan, (New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1996).

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy And Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos, (New York, NY: Hill & Wang, 2001).

Intuition: Its Powers And Perils by David G. Myers, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002).

Investigating The Paranormal by Joe Nickell, (New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2001).

Irrationality: Why We Don't Think Straight by Stuart Sutherland, (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992).

Looking For A Miracle by Joe Nickell, (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993).

Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2007).

Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things by Richard Wiseman, (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2007).

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011).

Why Do Buses Come In Threes? The Hidden Mathematics Of Everyday Life, by Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham, (New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 1998).

Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer, (New York, NY: MJF Books, 1997).