From Abracadabra to Zombies

Critical Thinking Mini-Lessons

further reading

Skeptimedia

Evaluating Evidence

Sharon Begley: Skeptics Think They're Intellectually Superior

Mesmerized by hypnotherapy - how does hypnosis differ from the placebo effect?

books and articles

New How to Want to Change Your Mind Out of all the cognitive biases and logical fallacies, I think the most pernicious of all is a kind of meta-bias, one underlying tendency that makes us more susceptible to all of the others: simply not wanting to be wrong.

Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart IQ tests "are unable to assess things such as a person's ability to critically weigh up information, or whether an individual can override the intuitive cognitive biases that can lead us astray."

Teaching Critical Thinking (html version) (click here for pdf version) - expanded commentary from my CT workshop presentation at The Amazing Meeting V - Available on DVD.

Chapter One, Critical Thinking, from the second edition of my Becoming a Critical Thinker (due out in spring 2005).

A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking by Greg R. Haskins. A concise (18 page) introduction to critical thinking, intended as a handy tool to help anyone evaluate or develop sound reasoning and arguments, based on The Skeptic's Dictionary and Becoming a Critical Thinker.

Reducing student belief in the paranormal by Richard Miller offers insights on helping students become more critical thinkers.

Critical Thinking and its Relation to Science and Humanism by Steven D. Schafersman

websites

Bad Moves. Bad Moves is a fortnightly series by philosopher Julian Baggini detailing the various ways in which arguments or points are made badly, but often persuasively. Julian Baggini is editor of The Philosophers' Magazine.

Critical Thinking Debate Guide - Philowiki

blog

How Not To Argue by Steven Novella

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