The Philosophers Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room

Thinking is at the heart of our everyday lives, yet our thinking can go wrong in any number of ways. Bad arguments, fallacious reasoning, misleading language, and builtin cognitive biases are all traps that keep us from rational decision making to say nothing of advertisers and politicians who want to convince us with halftruths and empty rhetoric. What can we do to avoid these traps and think better Is it possible to think faster, more efficiently, and more systematically