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Apr 4, 20224 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20204 min read
Bias
Biases represent flaws in human reasoning, one of the most destructive being confirmation bias.
Feb 13, 20204 min read
Emotion and Instinct
Emotion and instinct often get the blame when our reasoning goes South. But is that fair?
Feb 3, 20204 min read
Stories
Human beings create stories that help us understand the world, then fit facts and arguments into preferred storylines.