Directory of Critical Thinking Resources

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Sites related to logical thought and for the advancement of rational thinking and reasoning. Not a category for sites about issues, but for sites which can help us learn to make fair and sensible judgements about all issues.

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• 2think.org

  http://www.2think.org/
  Collection of book reviews and essays, mostly on popular science, with an emphasis on science as a guide to truth. Also includes a discussion forum.

• A Field Guide to Critical Thinking (Skeptical Inquirer Winter 1990)

  http://www.csicop.org/si/show/field_guide_to_critical_thinking/
  Six rules of evidential reasoning, a distillation and simplification of the scientific method. Ignoring the vowels, the letters in the word "FiLCHeRS" stand for the rules of Falsifiability, Logic, Comprehensiveness, Honesty, Replicability, and Sufficiency.

• Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT)

  http://ailact.mcmaster.ca/
  A non-profit scholarly association which aims to promote research into, teaching of, and testing of informal logic and critical thinking.

• Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit

  http://www.xenu.net/archive/baloney_detection.html
  Tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent arguments, based on Sagan's book "The Demon Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark."

• Free From Faith

  http://free-from-faith.blogspot.com/
  Comments on religion, science and scepticism.

• Mission: Critical

  http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/index.html
  Tutorial for critical thinking.

• National Center for Teaching Thinking

  http://www.nctt.net/
  A service organization for educators dedicated to providing programs for K - 12 schools and colleges on teaching and assessing skillful thinking.

• Open Courseware on Critical Thinking

  http://philosophy.hku.hk/think/
  Over one hundred tutorials on critical thinking, logic, scientific reasoning, creativity, and other aspects of thinking skills.

• Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking

  http://www.phact.org/
  Addressing strange phenomena with the mindset, "What are the facts and what can we deduce from them?"

• Propaganda and How to Recognize It

  http://www.rbs0.com/propaganda.pdf
  Essay on propaganda techniques.

• Real-World Reasoning

  http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/inflogic/inflhome.htm
  A course given by Peter Suber for high-school students as an introduction to college.

• Responsible Thinking

  http://www.truthpizza.org/
  Online book by Bob Korn promoting critical thinking. Outline, contact information.

• Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena

  http://skeptoid.com/
  Provides a weekly podcast dedicated to furthering knowledge by eliminating the widespread pseudosciences that infect popular culture.

• So You Want to Avoid Common Logical Errors?

  http://www.ehow.com/how-to_4845353_avoid-common-logical-errors.html
  Gives logical errors a name and points out the most common logical errors and how to avoid them.

• The Critical Thinking Community

  http://www.criticalthinking.org/
  Providing a forum and resources about Socratic questioning, higher order thinking, and critical thinking. Organizer of conferences and publisher of books and academic resources for teachers.

• Wikipedia - Critical Thinking

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking
  Crowd-sourced encyclopedia article includes an overview, concepts and principles, classroom applications, and effectiveness of instruction.

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