Critical Thinking: Improve Reasoning & Communication Skills
Basic guide for the development of critical thinking skills focused on argumentation
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What You Will Learn!
- Detect poor reasoning strategies
- Detect hidden and false assumptions in yourself and others
- Identify valid and sound arguments
- Distinguish deductive from inductive arguments
- Identify common fallacies
Description
In this course you will develop critical thinking skills. Specifically, you'll learn
- what critical thinking is
- what arguments are
- how to construct good/valid arguments
- the difference between deductive and inductive arguments
- some of the classic fallacies, like the red herring, ad hominem and false dilemma
This is a hands-on course, that has direct and immediate applicability. You will be able to detect poor reasoning strategies in yourself and others, acquire greater clarity of thought, become more precise, and proficient at the presentation of arguments in defence of your beliefs.
What are you going to get out of this course? You will become aware of your own thinking processes and better able to detect hidden and false assumptions, you will become better communicators, open-minded, less judgmental, yet confident in your judgments.
Who Should Attend!
- Everyone should take this course!
- This course is aimed at the development of critical thinking skills which can boost anyone's skill set and positively impact their effectiveness in all decision making contexts - as parents, employees, employers, students, etc.
Tags
- Communication Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Logic
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Lectures
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