Publications

Books Associated with the Workshops

All books are available in PDF form for $20 unless otherwise indicated. I am in the process of arranging physical publication of them. 

Clear and Careful Thinking

Written as a concise and focused practical guide for the interested layperson, Clear and Careful Thinking gives the reader concepts and methods for thinking well. Clear thinking is thinking that is focussed and dispassionate. Careful thinking is thinking that is reasonable, thorough, and organised. Together, they provide the necessary basis for ensuring that all of our thought can be productive, efficient and effective.

Laden with definitions, explanations, techniques and exercises, the book is essential reading for all those who seek to get the best from their thought.

Praise for Clear and Careful Thinking:

• • Bray’s Clear and Careful Thinking was the foundation of all of my successes.
    – Emperor Augustus

• • I credit Clear and Careful Thinking with enabling us to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis peacefully.
    – President John F. Kennedy

Analytical Thinking and Critical Thinking

A concise and focused practical guide for the interested layperson, Analytical Thinking and Critical Thinking aims to assist people seeking to improve the quality, productiveness, efficiency and effectiveness of their thought, and to enhance their understanding and judgment in both their immediate reality and the broader world. Laden with worked examples and exercises, the book is essential reading for those who seek to see further, more profoundly, and with greater clarity, and to improve their judgment in all matters large and small.

Praise for Analytical Thinking and Critical Thinking:

• • If you’re going to ‘throw the dice’ and cross the Rubicon, you need to think deeply about your options and strategy. Bray’s Analytical Thinking and Critical Thinking was the key to my making the correct decision.
    – Julius Caesar

• • The Peninsula Wars were won by my practical application of the lessons of Bray’s Analytical Thinking and Critical Thinking.
    – Duke of Wellington

A Guide to Opening Your Mind

A Guide to Opening Your Mind gives the reader a concise but comprehensive review of how and why our minds tend to close, and what we can do to open them and to keep them open. The book is essential reading for those who see the value in opening themselves to the world.

Praise for A Guide to Opening Your Mind:

• • I could never have seen so much, nor so far, without reading Bray’s Guide to Opening Your Mind.
    – Nikola Tesla

• • Thanks to Bray’s Guide, we were able to open the dialogue that led to the end of the Cold War and peace in Europe.
    – Presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev

• • The book that started me on my journey.
    – Mahatma Gandhi

Insight

Insight aims to give people a complete understanding of insight and insights, and comprehensive assistance in encouraging insight‑generation. Complete with examples, questions, exercises and activities, the book is essential reading for those who seek to understand the mysterious process of insight and to develop their ability to generate valuable insights.

Praise for Insight:

• • If I have seen further, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. But I would have seen even further, had both these giants and I read Bray’s Insight.
    – Sir Isaac Newton

• • Insight is the book that enabled me to construct il duomo.
    – Filippo Brunelleschi

• • The book that lies behind all of my inventions.
    – Archimedes

Other Books

You and Your Mind

A comprehensive review of our minds, how we form our beliefs, and how we tend to fall into false beliefs. The book covers: mental structures, processes and content; ideal and actual information-processing; natural and adverse weaknesses, limitations and tendencies in our mental processes and structures; and specific adverse consequences of these tendencies.

As well as being a book in its own right, You and Your Mind serves as a reference book for the other books in this series.

The author has made this book available at no charge.

Essentials of Logic

Perfect for the student of logic, the interested layperson and the professional seeking to improve her reasoning, Essentials of Logic gives the reader the essential and fundamental elements of logic and logical reasoning – from terms and propositions, to inference, to syllogisms and their common valid and invalid forms, to simple methods for determining the validity or otherwise of syllogisms. Laden with worked examples and exercises, the book is essential reading for those interested in, or beginning their journey in, logic.

Praise for Essentials of Logic:

• • The best explanation of my doctrines to appear in 2,500 years.
    – Aristotle

• • Bray’s Essentials of Logic was the foundation for all of my thought and ideas.
    – Sir Isaac Newton

• • Through my working life, I made sure to keep a copy of Bray’s Logic near at hand.
    – Albert Einstein

Common Errors in Reasoning

A companion to Sound Reasoning and Argumentation, Common Errors in Reasoning sets out for the reader the most common errors that people make in their reasoning – including their sources, their consequences, and examples of them. The aim of the book is to develop in the reader the ability to identify and recognise these common errors in reasoning, and to avoid making them in her own reasoning. Complete with a tremendous set of questions and exercises to help the reader to revise and deepen her learning, the book is essential reading for those interested in, or beginning their journey in, improving and correcting their thought.

Praise for Common Errors in Reasoning:

• • I wish I had read Bray’s Common Errors in Reasoning before listening to my counsellors and marching into Belgium on their shoddy advice.
    – Kaiser Wilhelm II

• • Common Errors in Reasoning was the book that enabled me to recognise, grapple with, and overhaul the immense error of reasoning that was Soviet Communism.
    – Mikhail Gorbachev

• • The book which sharpened my thought.
    – Socrates