Episodes
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TCT 011: What Critical Thinkers Can Learn From Actors
In this episode I talk about what it means to really understand a position that is different from your own, and what sorts of skills and attitudes you need to cultivate in order to achieve this kind of understanding. It turns out that critical thinkers
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TCT 010: Critical Thinking’s Dirty Secret: The Importance of Background Knowledge
Critical thinking instruction has a dirty secret. The dirty secret is that critical thinking can't be taught! Okay, maybe that's a bit too strong. But at least one important and essential component of critical thinking can't really be taught -- at least,
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TCT 009: The 5 Essential Components of Critical Thinking | Part 2: Argumentation and Rhetoric
We've talked about the relationship between logic and argumentation in previous episodes. In this episode I want to look at the relationship between argumentation and "rhetoric", the art of persuasive speech. I try to show that critical thinkers need a
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TCT 008: Logic for Critical Thinkers
Logic is an essential component of critical thinking, but how much logic do you really need to learn? If you take a course in formal logic you'll learn all kinds of fancy techniques for constructing derivations and determining whether the logical form of
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TCT 007: The 5 Essential Components of Critical Thinking | Part 1: Logic vs Argumentation
On this episode we're beginning a series on what I'm calling "The 5 Essential Components of Critical Thinking". I believe that effective critical thinking requires that we work at developing not just one but all five of these components, because in real-w
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TCT 006: If the Brain is a Computer, Does that Mean it Was Designed? | An Introduction to Fallacies
Our first "mailbag" episode! In this episode I answer a viewer question about an argument involving brains and computers. Along the way we introduce the concept of a "fallacy" and look at three different kinds of fallacies: * the "use-mention" fallac
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TCT 005: Why Critical Thinking Matters | Part 4: Wisdom
On this episode of the podcast we're looking at the relationship between critical thinking and the pursuit of philosophical wisdom. In it I distinguish the philosophical pursuit of wisdom from the wisdom that is offered by revealed religion on the one han
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TCT 004: Why Critical Thinking Matters | Part 3: Civic Duty
This week on the podcast we're asking two questions: * What is the role of critical thinking in supporting and sustaining liberal democratic societies? (My answer: A Big One!) * Do we, as citizens, have a civic duty to cultivate our critical thinking
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TCT 003: Why Critical Thinking Matters | Part 2: Empowerment
Last episode we talked about critical thinking as a means of SELF-DEFENSE against manipulative rhetoric and faulty arguments. This week we look at how mastery of the elements of critical thinking can help to EMPOWER people, help them to be more effective
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TCT 002: Why Critical Thinking Matters | Part 1: Self-Defense
In this episode of The Critical Thinker I begin a four-part series on "why critical thinking matters". In this episode I focus on critical thinking as a form of SELF-DEFENSE against the false rhetoric, sophisticated manipulations and bad arguments used by
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TCT 001: About Your Host
In this inaugural episode of The Critical Thinker podcast I give listeners an introduction to my background and history as a philosopher and critical thinking instructor.
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