You'Ve Got To Be Kidding! - How Jokes Can Help Youthink

You've Got to Be Kidding!: How Jokes Can Help You Think is a thoughtful and accessible analysis of the ways in which jokes illustrate how we think critically, and how the thinking process goes awry in everyday human situations
Uses jokes to illustrate the various mistakes or fallacies that are typically identified and discussed in courses on critical reasoning
Provides an effective way to learn critical thinking skills since jokes often describe real-life situations where it really matters whether a person thinks well or not
Demonstrates how philosophy is actually very practical and clearly related to real- life human experiences
Explains how developing good reasoning habits can make a real difference in all aspects of one's life

John Capps is a Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Donald Capps is Professor of Pastoral Psychology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of more than 20 books, including A Time to Laugh: The Religion of Humor (2005).

"A great book. But what do I know?"
- Socrates
"This book got me out of my cave."
- Plato
"An excellent book! Well, relatively."
- Albert Einstein
"It made me chuckle."
- Mona Lisa

Preface
1. The Importance of Critical Thinking
2. Fallacies of Relevance
3. Fallacies of Evidence
4. Fallacies of Assumption
5. Thinking Together
Notes and References