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ix list of comics Introduction 1. Squandering Self-Consciousness 1 PART I n THEORY section 1 The Possibility of Freedom 2. How Is Freedom Possible? 9 3. “Self-Control” Is Not Autonomy (I) 12 4. “Self-Control” Is Not Autonomy (II) 13 5.  Learning through Linguistically Enhanced Imagination Is the Human Trump Card 14 6. Language Tightens the Strings of Social Control 16 7. Materialism Threatens Freedom 17 8. Freedom Requires Courage 19 9. Self-Consciousness Is a Double-Edged Sword 21 section 2 Impartial Thinking 10. Social Determinism Can Be Invisible 23 11.  To Be a Chooser Requires Genuine Dialogue with Those Who Think Differently 26 12. You Have to Engage Others in Order to Be Free of Them 27 13. Truth through Falsification 30 14. Seeking the Impossible Quest 32 15. Truth Seeking Is Always a Two-Step Process 33 16. Not Everyone’s Opinions Are Equally Good 34 17. What Is Objective Is Faulty Reasoning, Not Truth 35 18. Truth Seeking, Not Truth, Shall Set You Free 37 19. The Stop and Go Signs toward Autonomy 38 PART II n PRACTICE section 1 Learning the Intricacies of Practical Reasoning 20. Seeking “a Good You” Rather than “Good Times” 50 21. Doing Nothing Is Not an Option: It Is Doing Something 51 22. Wisdom versus Intelligence 53 23. Freedom Is about the Future 55 24. Imprecision Is Inefficient in Action Guiding 58 25. Without Precision, Value Judgments Cannot Act as Magnets 61 26. If You Do Not Care, You Are Not in Charge 63 27.  The Mind Is Opened by What Is Interesting; What Is Interesting Is Contentious 64  List of Comics 28. Labeling Relevant Behavior Can Be Action Guiding 67 29. Your Present Values Are Your Window into Your Future 68 30. Are Your Emotions Those That You Choose? 69 31. Values Become Yours Only When They Inform Your Actions 71 32. You May Be Blind to the Person You Are Becoming 73 33. A Reason That Is Not a Reason: Begging the Question (I) 77 34. A Reason That Is Not a Reason: Begging the Question (II) 79 35. Attacking the Arguer Rather than the Argument Misses the Point 81 36. An Appeal to Tradition Can Sometimes Be a Reason 85 37.  Reasons Are Strong Only by Comparison: Bowling for Truth— a “Strawpin” Argument 87 38.  Reasons Can Sometimes Connect A to Z: Slippery Slope Arguments 89 39. Wisdom Varies with the Options Considered: False Dilemmas 90 40.  Own Up to an Accurate Description of Your Attitude: Distinction without a Difference 92 41. Bad Reasoning Can Misplace Values (and Associated Responses) 94 42. Analogizing Your Way toward Truth 96 43.  Truth Is a Function of Reason and/or Evidence, Not Mathematics: Fallacy of the Golden Mean 98 44. Reasoning Changes Behavior by Moving Value 106 45. Breaking the Major Premise 110 46. The Wonders of Fault Finding 114 47. I Am Talking about Rapists, Not Enron Executives 116 48. I Am Talking about Homosexuals, Not Glasses 118 49. What Would Count as Falsifying Your Belief? 120 50. The Positivity of Negativity 123 51. Me Only because of We 124 52.  Getting to Global Sufficiency by Testing Local Sufficiency through Counterexamples 128 53.  All Rottweilers Are Dogs—i.e., Being a Rottweiler Is a Sufficient Condition for Being a Dog 146 54. A Rottweiler Flip: Mistaking a Necessary for a Sufficient Condition 147 55. A Yorkie Flip 159 56. Bad Deductive Reasoning Can Lead to Bad Decisions (I) 166 57. Bad Deductive Reasoning Can Lead to Bad Decisions (II) 167 58. Bad Deductive Reasoning Can Lead to Bad Decisions (III) 170 59. Bad Deductive Reasoning Can Lead to Bad Decisions (IV) 172 60.  Bad Deductive Reasoning Can Misplace Values (and Associated Responses) 174 section 2 Thinking and Writing Your Way to Truth 61. It Is More Important to Be Right than to Appear Right 189 62. Begging the Question: Boring Hypocritical Repetition 195 63. Strawperson Argument: Bow-wow Chow 197 64. Language Games 200 65. Writing Can Be a Form of Interactive Listening—or Not 202 66.  When Self-Consciousness Takes Up the Challenge, It Is a Wonder to Behold 205 ...

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