A first glimpse of the cover for Raising Freethinkers. I think the folks at Amacom did a very nice job, wouldn’t you say?
I’m now at work on a blog series that’s gone completely out of control. It’s been years since I taught courses and workshops in critical thinking, but this topic has it all flooding back. It’s confirmation bias, the one critical thinking error at the heart of most of our worst thinking.
A comment from a parent in the Minneapolis seminar in March got me thinking about confirmation bias again. My own thinking error in a mid-April post was a classic example of it. An idle comment I heard while watching Global Catholic Network EWTN during my May visit to Amherst NY brought it up again. The presidential campaign is laced with it. My son is tripping over it. And I’m just tucking in to David Linden’s fascinating book The Accidental Mind, which among other things looks at the biology and neurology of it.
In short, I don’t know where to begin. But I’m having a ball. Becca’s also finishing Part 2 of her post today, so watch for that as well.
Other fun: The Meming of Life is undergoing a secret facelift by one of my favorite web artists. Stay tuned…
Ooo, yes, the cover is very pretty.
Comment: yinyang – 10. June 2008 @ 3:43 pm
Love it!
Comment: ondfly123 – 10. June 2008 @ 3:45 pm
Is there going to be a two-book boxed set?
Comment: ondfly123 – 10. June 2008 @ 5:11 pm
Or even better – a boxed set with both books and a bonus DVD of the seminar?
Comment: ondfly123 – 10. June 2008 @ 5:12 pm
[...] that’s not possible, you can at least see the cover [...]
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Oooo! And it’s on Amazon already (had to add it to my Goodreads To-Read shelf) — noticed the release date is my birthday! The perfect gift, thanks!
Comment: AmyS – 11. June 2008 @ 12:36 am
Feb 28?? You say that’s your birthday? It’s my birthday too, yeah!
Comment: Dale – 11. June 2008 @ 8:25 am
Seriously? A good gift for you, too then — maybe even better than for me
I’ll have to remember to send you a card…
Comment: AmyS – 11. June 2008 @ 12:30 pm
Wait, do you mean it’s the book’s birthday? The mind in a little slow this morning. More coffee? Yes, please.
I’ll send you a Congratulations on the New Baby card anyway.
Comment: AmyS – 11. June 2008 @ 1:00 pm
Great looking cover! I’m really looking forward to the critical thinking entries! I’ve been trying to work on those myself. With as many political debates as I find myself in lately, I could use it.
-Kelly
Comment: matsonwaggs – 11. June 2008 @ 1:30 pm
I mean my actual human birthday. I was born on February 28, 1963.
Comment: Dale – 11. June 2008 @ 2:33 pm
Oh, good! Some of the finest people I know are fellow 2/28-ers. 1969 for me
Comment: AmyS – 11. June 2008 @ 6:01 pm