Critical Thinking - An Upgrade For Your Mind

Description

In this course, you will :

• The capacity to think and argue more clearly and persuasively.
• Critical thinking abilities for work, school, and life.
• Discover some of the most useful material I've created as a professional philosopher at Oxford and London Universities.

Syllabus :

1. Giving An Argument

• What Is An Argument?
• Distinguishing Arguments From Disagreements And Explanations
• Good vs. Bad Arguments

 

2. Fallacies

• Hasty Generalisation
• Slippery Slope Fallacy
• The Ad Hominem Fallacy
• False Dilemma
• The Post Hoc Fallacy
• The Strawman Fallacy
• Affirming the Consequent

 

3. When It Is And Isn't Reasonable To Trust Appearance

• Trusting Our Senses
• When It Is Reasonable To Trust Our Senses
• When We Shouldn't Trust Our Senses
• Believing What We Are Told
• Defeaters
• When You Do Need An Argument

 

4. Cognitive Biases

• Fast vs Slow Thinking and The Linda Problem
• Pareidolia: The Mars Face Effect
• The Power of Suggestion and The Placebo Effect
• The Anchoring Effect: Steve Jobs and The Ipad Launch
• The Gambler's Fallacy: Why The Monte Carlo Gamblers Lost Millions
• Confirmation Bias : Is Sarah An Excellent Shot?
• Memory And The Misinformation Effect
• The Barnum Effect - And The Strange Case of Murderer Petiot's Astrological Chart
• Debiasing Strategies - protecting your company, your organisation, yourself

 

5. Arguments And Science

• Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
• Inductive and Deductive Reasoning in Science

 

6. Weighing Up The Evidence

• What is evidence?
• What Makes Evidence Strong?
• Bloodletting And The Barbershop Pole
• Testing Bloodletting, and Clever Hans the Horse
• Cognitive Dissonance and The UFO Cult
• Explaining Away The Evidence: 'Dogs Are Spies From The Planet Venus!'

Show more