Clear Thinking/Curriculum

Clear Thinking
This clear thinking curriculum is being developed as part of the Applied Wisdom curriculum to help people become more accurate and consistent in their thinking.

An alternative curriculum, provided by Rebel Wisdom, is also available.

Reading this essay on the Height of the Eiffel Tower can provide a good starting point for these studies.

lbeaumont These courses are available now and establish the core of the curriculum:
 * Facing Facts — Embracing Reality
 * Evaluating Evidence — Seeking Reality
 * Seeking True Beliefs — Excellence in the Quest for Knowledge
 * Exploring Worldviews — Challenging our deeply embedded assumptions
 * Deductive Logic — Evaluating Consistency
 * Recognizing Fallacies — Describing inconsistencies
 * Knowing How You Know — Developing and applying your own Theory of Knowledge.
 * Thinking Scientifically — Reliable ways of knowing
 * What There Is — Know what is real
 * Intellectual Honesty — Seeking Real Good Together
 * Socratic Methods — Seeking real good by questioning beliefs
 * Exploring Social Constructs — Constructing Reality
 * Finding Common Ground — Aligning concepts with reality
 * Resolving Cognitive Dissonance—Understanding, Identifying, and Addressing Inner Conflict
 * Real Good Religion—Rebooting spiritual practice
 * Understanding Emergence—Exploring the possible
 * Natural Inclusion — Experiencing the world from nature.

Courses in this curriculum address common core standards requirements for: Standards for Mathematical Practice » Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

The following courses are proposed but yet to be developed:


 * Forecasting with Bayes’ Theorem — Integrating Evidence
 * Clarifying Probabilities — Using Natural Frequencies
 * Understanding Risk — Exposure to loss
 * Inductive Reasoning — Evaluating expectations
 * The problem of induction
 * Cognitive Errors and Distortions — Circumventing Occlusions
 * Rhetoric — Appraising the allure
 * Analyzing Real Arguments — Evaluating rhetoric

Until the courses in this curriculum are complete, students may benefit from the courses now available in the Khan Academy Critical Thinking curriculum.