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- Apr 4, 2022
- 4 min
Faith
This counter-intuitive march through potential friends and foes of clear thinking began with this piece that asked whether there might be...
- Mar 30, 2022
- 3 min
Emotion
Last time, I pointed out how some writers worry that the cure for a common enemy of critical thinking (disinformation) might be worse...
- Feb 21, 2022
- 3 min
Metacognition
As mentioned last time, metacognition is the process of thinking about your own thinking, one best illustrated with an example. That last...
- Jun 1, 2021
- 4 min
How to Think About the Lab-Leak Hypothesis
Over the last month, an idea once condemned as a conspiracy theory and banned from social media and polite conversation – the so-called...
- Mar 18, 2021
- 4 min
Ethics Bowl - Controlling for Bias
As I’ve described before, one of the benefits of logic-checking (that catch-all term for the set of critical-thinking practices you’ve...
- Feb 11, 2021
- 4 min
Asking the Right Questions
This week’s trial based on Impeachment II of America’s 45th President highlights why logic-checking (a catch-all term for a set of...
- Nov 13, 2020
- 4 min
Poor Sports
My hope has always been that people from different ends of the political spectrum have gravitated to this site in the belief there is...
- Feb 18, 2020
- 4 min
Bias
Biases represent flaws in human reasoning, one of the most destructive being confirmation bias.
- Feb 13, 2020
- 4 min
Emotion and Instinct
Emotion and instinct often get the blame when our reasoning goes South. But is that fair?
- Feb 3, 2020
- 4 min
Stories
Human beings create stories that help us understand the world, then fit facts and arguments into preferred storylines.