Dr. Todd Riniolo, associate professor of psychology, will discuss why everyone is vulnerable to developing foolish beliefs in a Meet the Author event on Monday, April 7 at 12:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall. His book, When Good Thinking Goes Bad: How Your Brain Can Have a Mind of Its Own, examines unconscious biases in critical thinking, and poses such questions as:
In 1975 who warned us “the world as we know it will likely be ruined before the year 2000??
What role (if any) did critical thinking play in the famous “Monkey Trial”?
What was Albert Einstein’s failure as a critical thinker?
The event is sponsored by the Medaille College Scholars Program.
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We’re reading and discussing “When Good Thinking Goes Bad” during the months of August and September 2009 at http://www.BookTalk.org. We’d like to do a live chat session (in our chat room) with Todd Riniolo sometime in September.
Over the years we’ve interviewed Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer and other big names in skepticism and critical thinking.
Anyone reading this is welcome to join us in the forum discussion.