Critical Thinking Skills Free Online Course

Course Description: In order to provide a solid foundation for our assertions, convictions, and attitudes about the world, this course examines the nature and methods of critical thought. From formal logic to dialectical materialism, from analysing arguments to the Socratic Method, we examine several aspects of critical thinking. Views of knowledge generation in its social context, reasoning and inference, valuing and evaluating, and observation and interpretation are all taken into consideration.

Course Content

1. The Nature of Critical Thinking
2. The Benefits of Critical Thinking
3. The Role of Critical Thinking in Decision Making
4. Understanding Critical Thinking & Reasoning
5. Critical Analysis of Others' Reasoning

1. Benefits of Critical Thinking: Professional & Personal
2. Ancillary Skills in Critical Thinking
3. 20 Realistic Self Appraisal of Critical Thinking
4. Development of Understanding
5. Focusing on Idea or Action not Person
6. Embracing Non-Dualistic Thinking
7. Embracing Ambiguity & Doubt
8. Challenging Assumptions
9. Role of Affective Reasoning

1. Explicit and Implicit Arguments
2. Understanding Latent Message
3. 6. Evaluating Sources & Premmises of Arguments
4. 7.Logical Inferences: Induction and Deduction
5. 8. Logical Syllogism: Understanding Logical Reasoning
6. 9. Argument by Analogy
7. 1. Arguments and Premises
8. 2.Evaluating Arguments
9. 3.How to develop Intellectual Humility through Scepticism
10. 4.Appeal to Anger and Anger Management
11. 5. Conformism vs Autonomy in Critical Thinking Skills

1. 10 Appeals to the Mind

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1. Unraveling the Mind: Understanding Cognitive Biases

1. 1. Dialectical Materialism: Introduction
2. 2. Materialism vs Idealism
3. 3. Abstraction
4. 4. Does Truth Exist?
5. 5. Totality vs Parts
6. 6. Process and Relations in Dialectics
7. 7. Relational Analysis: Four Relations
8. 8. System of Conditioned Conditioning
9. 9. System before History
10. 10. Form and Function
11. 11. Dialectical Reality/Social Reality
12. 12. Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis

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Learning Outcomes

Having completed this course you should be able to:
✓ Demonstrate the ability to identify and evaluate arguments and evidence
✓ Apply logical reasoning and critical thinking skills to real-world situations
✓ Recognize and avoid common fallacies and biases
✓ Evaluate the credibility of sources of information
✓ Develop effective communication skills for presenting arguments and evidence

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