The Critical Thinking Toolkit

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The Critical Thinking Toolkit is the most comprehensive online suite of resources on critical thinking. Each session focuses on examples of specific fallacies and biases from across the social and political spectrum, demonstrating how these error patterns consistently undermine our public discourse. You will learn how to improve your critical thinking abilities not only through the avoidance of error, but also by following and applying key intellectual principles and best practices.

Have the complete critical thinking toolkit at your fingertips whenever and wherever you need it.

What Will You Learn?

  • Learn how to recognise and identify common errors in other people's arguments
  • Improve your own argumentative and decision-making skills by avoiding those same common errors
  • Familiarise yourself with the cognitive biases that undermine objectivity and rationality
  • Immunise yourself against common rhetorical tricks and dishonest argumentative strategies
  • Learn how to construct compelling, watertight arguments

Course Content

Foundational principles
Learn about rationality, objectivity, and other key principles without which critical thinking is impossible.

  • What is critical thinking, and why is it important?
    08:20
  • Rationality
    04:49
  • Why be rational?
    02:14
  • Objectivity
    03:05
  • Why be objective?
  • Objectivity is not “fence-sitting”
  • Objectivity, relativism and society
  • Improving your rationality and objectivity
  • How to be a good interlocutor 1: Intellectual empathy
    05:56
  • How to be a good interlocutor 2: The principle of charity
    07:45
  • How to be a good interlocutor 3: Steelmanning
  • How to be a good interlocutor 4: Don’t change the subject!
  • How to be a good interlocutor 5: Engage in “good faith”

Fallacies
Learn the most common fallacies; you will immediately start to see these patterns of error crop up everywhere in your daily encounters. Eliminate these errors from your own thinking, and hold others to account when they arise in theirs.

Cognitive Biases
Discover the most common, often powerful psychological forces that undermine our objectivity and rationality

Arguing effectively
Learn how to construct compelling arguments

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