Robert Todd Carroll
Topical Index
logic &
perception
- ad hoc hypothesis
- appeal to authority
- argument from ignorance
- begging the question
- Barnum effect; Forer effect
- the clustering illusion
- cold reading
- communal reinforcement
- confabulation
- the divine fallacy
- gambler's fallacy
- memory
- Occam's razor
- pareidolia
- placebo effect
- post hoc fallacy
- pragmatic fallacy
- the regressive fallacy
- selective thinking
- self-deception
- testimonials
- Texas-sharpshooter fallacy
- wishful thinking
science
& philosophy
- alpha waves
- anomalies
- argument from design
- Baron d'Holbach
- control study
- cryptomnesia
- d??vu
- determinism
- dualism
- empiricism
- free will
- materialism
- metaphysics
- mind
- mind-control
- natural
- naturalism
- ontology
- paradigm
- positivism
- psychology
- The Randi Psychic Challenge
- science
- scientism
- philosophical skepticism
- theories
- true-believer syndrome
- zombis & p-zombies
Other Sources
- New Scientist Planet Science
- Mike Kohary's Science and the Art of Skeptical Thought
- Walter W. Stewart's Page on Scientific Misconduct
- Bob Park - The American Physical Society - Newsbriefs on pseudoscientific endeavors and the politics of science
- HOW THINGS WORK by Louis A. Bloomfield, Professor of Physics, The University of Virginia
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The ISM Book by Peter Saint-Andr?
- The Philosophers' Web Magazine
- The Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University
Recommended Reading
Gardner, Martin. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1957),
Gardner, Martin. Science: Good, Bad and Bogus (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981),
Gilovich, Thomas. How We Know What Isn't' So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (New York: The Free Press, 1993)
Kourany, Janet A. Scientific Knowledge: Basic Issues in the Philosophy of Science, 2nd edition (Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1998).
Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Random House, 1995).
Visit the Carl Sagan room of the Skeptic's Bookstore for more books on logic, science and philosophy.
Robert Todd Carroll
