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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- The Critical Thinking Community 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.
- National Center for Teaching Thinking A service organization for educators dedicated to providing programs for K - 12 schools and colleges on teaching and assessing skillful thinking.
- Mission: Critical Tutorial for critical thinking.
- Real-World Reasoning A course given by Peter Suber for high-school students as an introduction to college.
- Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) A non-profit scholarly association which aims to promote research into, teaching of, and testing of informal logic and critical thinking.
- Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking Addressing strange phenomena with the mindset, "What are the facts and what can we deduce from them?"
- 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.
- Propaganda and How to Recognize It Essay on propaganda techniques.
- Open Courseware on Critical Thinking Over one hundred tutorials on critical thinking, logic, scientific reasoning, creativity, and other aspects of thinking skills.
- Responsible Thinking Online book by Bob Korn promoting critical thinking. Outline, contact information.
- Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena 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? Gives logical errors a name and points out the most common logical errors and how to avoid them.
- A Field Guide to Critical Thinking (Skeptical Inquirer Winter 1990) 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.
- Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit 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 Comments on religion, science and scepticism.
- Wikipedia - Critical Thinking Crowd-sourced encyclopedia article includes an overview, concepts and principles, classroom applications, and effectiveness of instruction.