Critical Thinking Reference

This is the root page of reference material for The Five Disciplines of Thought, working copy, Spring 2009

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Exercises, by discipline

Discipline 1: Reflective Voice

• Identifying rationales
• Noticing Your Reflective Voice (in text)
• Reflective Voice Paper

Discipline 2: Seeing Rationales

• Distinguishing Argument and Explanation in a Reflective Context
• Arguments for Reconstruction

Discipline 3: Critical Response

• Assessing Rationales
• Comparative Responses in Speech and Writing
• Coached Discussion

Discipline 4: Recognizing Knowledge

• Determining Authoritativeness
• Research

Discipline 5: Seeing Complexity

• Managing Complexity in Your Experience

Topics

• Burden of Proof
• Case Study of a Reconstruction #1
• Glossary of Critical Thinking Terms
• Categorical Logic
• Deductive Argument Forms
• Form in Explanation
• Inductive Argument Forms
• Logical Structure in Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
• Placebo Effect
• Presumption
• Propositional Logic
• Quantitative Information in Knowledge Claims
• Some Terms for Describing Your Reflective Voice
• The Theory of Rationales
• Thinking and the Nature of thought