People often point out logical fallacies like the straw man and ad hominem. Here are three others that are prevalent but ...

In a June column, I argued that citizens have an ethical obligation to others to think critically and value the truth and facts, even if they are contrary to strong personal emotions and group-held ...

If you’ve been looking for a crash course in basic logic — or just want to explain to a friend exactly what a logical fallacy is — turn your attention to these simple, easy-to-understand videos, which ...

In this post, I will continue a discussion concerning the connections between depression and critical thinking (for a previous post on this topic, go here). Consider other patterns of thought that are ...

The rigid structures of language we once clung to with certainty are cracking. Take gender, nationality or religion: these concepts no longer sit comfortably in the stiff linguistic boxes of the last ...

People often ask me how they can avoid misinformation. I wish there was an easy answer, but effectively avoiding misinformation means reevaluating our relationship with information. The perpetuation ...

Several recent studies identifying the weak spots in both American K-12 and college education, like Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s A movement to implement critical thinking courses peaked around l980 ...

I am regularly astonished by the sheer number and blatancy of the bogus claims and logical fallacies that Edward B. Harmon strings together in his columns. For anyone who’s interested in the ...

"Critical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and hatred for every kind of ...