Website review: Critical Thinking Field Guide (Skep...
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•16 reviews since May 27, 2003
philosophy, critical-thinking, logic
•csicop.org/si/9012/critical-thinking.html
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- markchenjd rated 7 weeks ago
- What's the point? It's preaching to the choir.
drago1 rated 6 months ago- I was a little skeptical at first - but very interesting.
- modcamcreator rated 9 months ago
- Logic and Reason are valuable tools to analyze propositional content and falsifiable statements, but they cannot transcend the very finite limits of language. There is so much more to existence than what can be analyzed through intellectual discourse. I agree with pinxpose. The scientific method cannot capture the essence of truth and reality, it can only peek at the surface of things. The cosmos is an infinitely complex and multifaceted network of worlds within worlds. Bearing this in mind, one cannot dismiss the paranormal. What we cannot comprehend, we should not sweep under the rug and pretend that it doesn't exist. And about UFOs: "UFO proponents, faced with a lack of reliable physical or photographic evidence to buttress the claims..." This is absurdly untrue. Any serious digging into government documents will reveal a plethora of evidence that we are not alone in this universe. People like this college professor claim to be arbiters of truth because they have studied the great thinkers of the past. They have made this their reality. Thought can alter reality, and if you want to live a contained life in a sliver of possibility, then you shall.
- Marcus-Lycus rated 13 months ago
- The six rules of evidential reasoning are my own distillation and simplification of the scientific method. To make it easier for students to remember these half-dozen guidelines, I've coined an acronym for them: Ignoring the vowels, the letters in the word "FiLCHeRS" stand for the rules of Falsifiability, Logic, Comprehensiveness, Honesty, Replicability, and Sufficiency. Apply these six rules to the evidence offered for any claim, I tell my students, and no one will ever be able to sneak up on you and steal your belief. You'll be filch-proof."
- The six rules of evidential reasoning are my own distillation and simplification of the scientific method. To make it easier for students to remember these half-dozen guidelines, I've coined an acronym for them: Ignoring the vowels, the letters in the word "FiLCHeRS" stand for the rules of Falsifiability, Logic, Comprehensiveness, Honesty, Replicability, and Sufficiency. Apply these six rules to the evidence offered for any claim, I tell my students, and no one will ever be able to sneak up on you and steal your belief. You'll be filch-proof."
- dpsahoo1947 rated 13 months ago
- There are many reasons for the popularity of paranormal beliefs in the United States today, including: the irresponsibility of the mass media, who exploit the public taste for nonsense, the irrationality of the American world-view, which supports such unsupportable claims as life after death and the efficacy of the polygraph, and the ineffectiveness of public education, which generally fails to teach students the essential skills of critical thinking. As a college professor, I am especially concerned with this third problem. Most of the freshman and sophomore students in my classes simply do not know how to draw reasonable conclusions from the evidence. At most, they've been taught in high school what to think; few of them know how to think.
- pinxpose rated 14 months ago
- i appreciate this but as a spiritual person seeking inner peace i think there are some things we need to go by our intuition and not just cold hard facts. personally i think our "scientific method" has flaws. we have much to learn about life and about the spirit world and with this the scientific method cannot be the only tool we use. we could learn a lot from ancient civilizations, who had knowledge that today we are still trying to aquire. sometimes the skeptic mind is most certainly going to miss out on the beauty of life and all that we truly are.
- chummers rated 15 months ago
- From the page:"The last three rules of FiLCHeRS -- honesty, replicability, and sufficiency -- are all pragmatically necessary rules of evidential reasoning. Because human beings are often motivated to rationalize and to lie to themselves, because they are sometimes motivated to lie to others, because they can make mistakes, and because perception and memory are problematic, we must demand that the evidence for any factual claim be evaluated without self-deception, that it be carefully screened for error, fraud, and appropriateness, and that it be substantial and unequivocal." This is good stuff for listeners. Thanks raven3 verrrry nice.
- raven3 rated 15 months ago
- Critical thinking is highly underated..."It is the educated mind that can entertain a thought without agreeing with it" (Aristotle). Very valuable to any one who wants to expand their mind to have this as a resource.
- zerothehero rated 15 months ago
- From the page: "Most of the freshman and sophomore students in my classes simply do not know how to draw reasonable conclusions from the evidence. At most, they've been taught in high school what to think; few of them know how to think."
- CupOfSquirrels rated 15 months ago
- "While science has likely killed more innocents than religion" - I know this sounds straight from the usual teenage Atheist archetype, but I honestly think there have been more deaths over the course of homo sapiens from religion than atheism.
