#BU-04-08 Logical and Critical Thinking
About Course
The University of AucklandDescription
Why join the course?
What Will I Learn?
- Explore key concepts in logical and critical thinking
- Apply key concepts in logical and critical thinking
- Identify obstacles to logical and critical thinking
- Identify the components of a good argument
- Produce an argument in standard form
- Classify deductive and non-deductive arguments
- Evaluate arguments based on criteria such as validity, strength and cogency
- Interpret scientific, moral and legal arguments
- Develop an argument "in the wild"
- Assess arguments charitably
Topics for this course
11 Lessons30h
Why do we need to learn Logical and Critical Thinking skills?
The lead educators Tim Dare and Patrick Girard explain why logical and critical thinking matters. Through this course, they will help us to become good logical and critical thinkers.
Introduction to the course00:03:10
How to use Flexgigzz course
Introduce yourself
What is logical and critical thinking?00:06:41
Obstacles to Logical and Critical Thinking
So what are the common obstacles that stop us from becoming good logical and critical thinkers? This week we learn to recognise the obstacles of bias, heuristics, framing and fallacies.
Summary
Let's recap the important concepts covered in the course.
A nice course! Detailed, fun and action oriented. It will give you insights on how to sharpen your mind in a fun and exciting ways.
This is a good course for us to learn how to improve our logical thinking and critical thinking ability. Learn rational analysis and judgment.
Very helpful information. The lectures are not long, to the point to keep, and keeps you focused.
I really enjoyed this course. The instructors were clear & were well versed. I was able to take notes & found this lecture very helpful.