Foundations of Critical Thinking

Simply put, critical thinking teaches you how to form beliefs correctly , how to argue well, how to distinguish good arguments from bad arguments, and how to generally conduct yourself well in the realm of debate and intellectual activity. What critical thinking is not about – and is sometimes mistakenly thought to be about – is how to be a critical person (that is, a person who […]

An often overlooked feature of moral life is that there is an ethical obligation to at least *try* to think critically and objectively. One useful entry point into understanding why this is the case, is the virtue of “intellectual empathy”. This idea has very little to do with emotion or sentiment. Intellectual empathy is simply

One longstanding objection to the idea of objectivity is that all knowledge (or what pretends to be knoweldge) is “relative” in some fundamental sense. What does this mean? The idea seems to be that, at its heart, all knowledge is a “social construct”. This in turn seems to be based on the idea that even