Improving Your Thinking

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Alyssa Lowery and Madecraft

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01 - Introduction

01 - Why does thinking matter.mp4

01:04

02 - Thinking with others.mp4

02:55

02 - 1. The Attitude

01 - Cultivating intellectual humility.mp4

03:19

02 - Taking your time.mp4

03:28

03 - 2. Things to Do

01 - Making distinctions.mp4

02:59

02 - Making more distinctions.mp4

03:28

03 - Only the best argument.mp4

03:26

04 - Assessing your sources.mp4

03:18

05 - Using generalizations carefully.mp4

02:57

06 - Considering other worlds.mp4

03:23

04 - 3. Things to Avoid

01 - Not defining your terms.mp4

03:31

02 - Resisting the strawman.mp4

02:38

03 - Infamous ad hominem.mp4

03:10

04 - Question-begging.mp4

03:08

05 - 4. On Context

01 - Two key questions.mp4

02:55

02 - What's up with truth.mp4

03:09

03 - When thinking isn't the right tool.mp4

02:17

06 - Conclusion

01 - Where to go from here.mp4

01:55

Description

Say you wanted to get better at thinking. Where would you even start? The idea on its own is so abstract. But becoming a better thinker is attainable, and with it come some real-world results, like improvements to your relationships, career, mental health, and emotional intelligence, to name just a few. In this course, philosophy instructor Alyssa Lowery walks you through some of the best ways to improve your thinking.

Find out what to do, and what not to do, when tackling a complicated idea, problem, or conversation. Get strategies to improve your intellectual humility and avoid common errors in reasoning. Explore distinctions, arguments, sources, generalizations, thought experiments, and more. It’s easy to think of thinking as an isolated, solitary activity. By the end of this course, you’ll have a better idea about why that’s not the case, how thinking happens with other people, and how you can join them in conversation to take your own thinking to the next level.

This course was created by Madecraft. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

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I'm a philosopher currently teaching at Vanderbilt University. My education changed my life, and making that possible for others through accessible, engaging, and challenging educational materials and experiences drives me forward. On the research front, I love talking about virtue ethics (what it means to be a good person), the meaning of life (great casual dinner conversation material), and what it means for something to count as a "religion" (especially when how we define it has legal repercussions). I'm always interested in opportunities to keep philosophizing in different contexts or in public humanities projects.

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