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Showing posts with label critical thinking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label critical thinking. Show all posts
Saturday, March 28, 2020

A history of FLICC: the 5 techniques of science denial — John Cook

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This is useful not only as a primer on recognizing and rebutting science denialism but also as a contribution to critical thinking in gener...
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Monday, May 20, 2019

Brian Romanchuk — Comments On Turning Points And Recessions

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As the Canadian experience shows, deciding which episodes qualify as "recessions" can be debated. The safest course of action is ...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Caitlin Johnstone — Why The Entire Political-Media Class Just Tried To End Ilhan Omar’s Career

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This is indicative of a much larger problem than AIPAC. It's the basis of attacks grounded in sophistry that uses invalid logic. T...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Duncan Green — Please help me answer some scary smart student questions on Power and Systems

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Uncertainty and emergence in huge complex adaptive systems. To what extent can reflexivity anticipate emergence anticipated and reduce ...
Friday, November 30, 2018

Jerry Andersen — A free, teacher-less university in France is schooling thousands of future-proof programmers

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“We don’t teach anything,” says Nicolas Sadirac, head of École 42. “The students create what they need all the time.”... Who cares about ...
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Monday, September 17, 2018

Eric Schliesser — On Teaching How to Ask Philosophical Questions (of Complicated Texts)

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Only marginally related but important, I think, in developing a curious approach that is also rigorous in any area using the Socratic metho...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Timothy Taylor — I Don't Know So Well What I Think Until I See What I Say

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I've known writers who have the essay almost fully formed in their mind, and it just pours out on to the page. It's happened for m...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Gerald Dworkin — On Critical Thinking

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We need courses devoted to such matters because we are living in a time where the dangers to informed and rational thought are not so much ...
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Sunday, July 29, 2018

Oleg Komlik — The Sociology of Quantification: Seeing like Numbers

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Short and important. Economic Sociology and Political Economy The Sociology of Quantification: Seeing like Numbers Oleg Komlik | founde...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Chris Dillow — Rationalism, rationality & reasonableness

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Chris Dillow is writing bout the dialectical approach in contrast to the categorical approach and apparently doesn't realize it even th...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Ronald J. Daniels — Philosophy Matters

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Philosophy matters. Just ask Bill Miller. Bill started his professional journey as a philosophy graduate student at Johns Hopkins. He becam...
Friday, October 27, 2017

Adam Jezard — Finland thinks it has designed the perfect school. This is what it looks like.

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The walls are coming down in Finland’s schools – but not just the physical barriers between classrooms. Also going are divisions between su...
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Julian Millie and Matt Tomlinson — Infrequently asked questions: The Monologic Imagination

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The topic we are focusing on is monologism, the practice of presenting one’s voice as pure and singular, unquestionably true, and, in the c...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Annabel Heseltine — Should Reasoning be the Fourth R?

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The three Rs of reading, writing and arithmetic have always been the core fundamentals of teaching, with an implicit understanding that, ...
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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Paul Ratner — Teaching Students Philosophy Will Improve Their Academic Performance, Shows Study

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Move over STEM. There are many attempts to improve student performance which result in a host of measures, ranging from misguided to inspi...
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Friday, July 10, 2015

Hannah Richardson — Philosophy sessions 'boost primary school results'

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Liberal education being rethought? Weekly philosophy sessions in class can boost primary school pupils' ability in maths and literacy...
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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Erin Meyer — Are You a Holistic or a Specific Thinker?

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A traditional tenet of Western philosophies and religions is that you can remove an item from its environment and analyze it separately. Cu...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Where are GI Jane and GI Joe When We Need BOTH of Them?

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(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) And, has GI Adaptive Rate Reached Zero Yet? Do enough schools - or parents - teach students that p...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Nigel Warburton — Talk With Me

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...Conversation without critical judgment becomes mere chatter and airing of different opinions — as William Empson wrote in his poem ‘Let ...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Scott Kaufman — Texas textbook review panel: Put more ‘creation science based on Biblical principles’ in biology books

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Religious conservatives on the Texas state textbook review panel have targeted for eliminationhigh school biology textbooks that don’t incl...
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