HUM 115: Critical Thinking (Hiroshima and the Atomic Bomb)

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Halpern, Diane F. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.2005. Credo Reference.

CriticalThinking.org

Robert H. Ennis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

from Insight Assessment

What is critical thinking, and why is it so important? This episode of the ProCon.org Critical Thinking Video Series explores critical thinking and how it leads to greater citizen involvement.

Geoff Pynn, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University, gets you started on the critical thinking journey. He tells you what critical thinking is, what an argument is, and what the difference between a deductive and an ampliative argument is.