Critical Thinker Academy: Learn to Think Like a Philosopher – Udemy

Description

Critical Thinker Academy: Learn to Think Like a Philosopher is a critical thinking course. With the help of this course you can improve your grades, advance in your career and expand your understanding. For long-term success in school, education, business, and life, learning how to think is more important than what you think. As rational human beings, we have limited the teaching of logic, argument analysis, and critical reasoning to courses at certain universities that will be useful to a limited number of students very late in their education. In this course, you will learn about the importance of critical thinking, the difference between logic and reasoning, good and bad reasoning, the importance of background knowledge in critical thinking, and other similar issues.

What you will learn in the Critical Thinker Academy: Learn to Think Like a Philosopher course:

The basic concepts of critical thinking (including logic, analysis of arguments, the science of the meanings of expressions, conclusions with possibilities, the importance of background knowledge, etc.)
The importance of critical thinking for personal development, participation in a democratic society, and the pursuit of wisdom
The role of critical thinking principles in writing good essays
How psychological biases make us susceptible to problems in the formation of beliefs and judgments.
How does the psychology of our descent and our political polarization affect the thinking of our critics
How does debate in science clarify the meaning of terms such as theory, truth, hypothesis and law.

Course details

Publisher: Udemy
Instructors: Kevin de Laplante
English language
Training level: introductory to advanced
Number of courses: 207
Duration: 19 hours and 33 minutes