August 2010

Depression: Is Critical Thinking Part of the Cure?

Psychology Today
That resource is sound critical thinking, and this is something that I am familiar with as a philosopher. My claim is not that unsound or illogical thinking ..Read the Full Article

Humans, their brains still a grand mystery

Honolulu Star-Advertiser
For thousands of years philosophers have meditated and cogitated about how the ... and reconstructing it, according to the Foundation for Critical Thinking. ...Read the Full Article

An absence of critical thinking

The Globe and Mail
“Critical thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way,” explains Linda ... Read the Full Article

Cultivation of Critical Thinking

The Island.lk
Our thinking is often prejudiced, unfair, and plainly wrong, as Dr Richard Paul (Director of Research of the Center for Critical Thinking, and the Chair of ...Read the Full Article

New thinking backs daydream believers

The Age
To nurture such critical thinking, Dr Hawkes says open-ended questions such as "If orange was a sound, what sound would it be?" or "If there was a fourth ...Read the Full Article

Poor education, poor democracy

Washington Post (blog)
When such changes are made, business itself suffers, because healthy business cultures need creativity and critical thinking, as leading business educators ...Read the Full Article

Educating parliamentarians – A crash course in critical thinking?

By Alistair Rae
Lib Dem MP for Cambridge, Julian Huppert, gave an interview to the Independent in which he talked about the need for parliamentarians to understand science and technology. ...Read the Full Article

DAWN WHALEN: The internet's place in developing critical thinking skills

Foothills Media Group
If students were challenged in an exercise of critical thinking skills, could they use the Internet as their research tool to accomplish a quest to make ...Read the Full Article