Critical Thinking

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

How can critical thinking help us navigate in a world on fire, where the climate crisis, wars, identity politics, domestic politics, and social media divide us as never before? How can we find the courage to think critically and independently when we increasingly obtain information, news, and fake news through echo chambers such as social media and we live in fear of being excluded from these echo chambers? And how can we bridge the gap between critical philosophy and praxis when division and fear of exclusion make the call for critically sound actions as important as ever? These three questions will guide the course, where we will unfold historico philosophical analyses of the present, that is, of the norms and values that we uncritically live by.