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The Critical Thinker Academy

The Critical Thinker Academy



Dedicated to the Art and Science of Reasoning Well


Category: Society & Culture




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Critical Thinking Tutorials

Tags: critical, thinking, argumentation, logic, philosophy


The Critical Thinker Academy Episodes

TCT 018: Critical Thinking About Conspiracies (Part 3): Conspiracies, Mind Control and Falsifiability

Published: 12/21/11

This is Part 3 of our multi-part series on critical thinking about conspiracies. In this episode we follow up on the discussion of "default skepticism" that was introduced in episode…

TCT 017: Critical Thinking About Conspiracies | Part 2

Published: 11/12/11

In episode 017 of the Critical Thinker Podcast we continue our series on critical thinking about CONSPIRACIES. In the previous episode I introduced a view that I called "default skepticism"…

TCT 016: Critical Thinking About Conspiracies | Part 1

Published: 10/12/11

On this episode of The Critical Thinker Podcast we enter the fascinating world of CONSPIRACIES. I'd be happy to tell you all I know about the topic, but then I'd…

TCT 015: Confirmation Bias and the Evolution of Reason

Published: 07/31/11

In this episode I talk about a new approach to understanding confirmation bias that is getting some recent attention. It's known as the "argumentative theory of reason", and it claims…

TCT 014: Cognitive Biases and the Authority of Science

Published: 06/12/11

In this episode I talk about the relevance of cognitive biases for understanding how science works. I argue that, once we understand how cognitive biases lead us into error, and…


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