Critical Knowing

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

The quality of thinking affects every aspect of our lives, such as how we absorb information, how we make decisions, and whether we can effectively engage one another in a civil society. To think well in our times, one needs tools by which to separate thinking from mere feelings, to form and successfully communicate cogent arguments, to uncover the logic and hidden assumptions in other people’s claims, to manage and exercise caution about one’s sources of information, and so on and so forth. This course offers an essential set of such tools.