Links and stuff for the 3-session course I offered in August, 2025, as a teaser for Great Courses course on Critical Thinking that I will be facilitating starting in November.
Session 1: Thinking Fast and Slow
- Kahneman’s Book – I don’t usually cite Wikipedia pages, but it’s a comprehensive summary. If you buy the book, which I recommend, you can find it used at all the usual places online.
- 2 modes of thinking – First video I showed
- Guardian Interview – Nicely edited and clearly stated
- Steve Forbes Interview – Complete interview from which I ripped an excerpt
Session 2: Logic, Evidence and Science
- Logical Reasoning Flowchart video – From Let’s Get Logical, which has lots of well done videos on all things logical.
- Evidence Pyramid video – From Medical College of Wisconsin’s Library
Session 3: Fallacies and Biases
- School of Thought – Non profit organization dedicated to promoting critical thinking, reason, and understanding. Lots of great resources, including critical thinking cards, online tests, and micro sites like yourlogicalfallacyis.com, and yourbias.is. All their stuff is under a creative commons license, so you can download and use it as long as you cite where it came from.
- Logically Fallacious – Bo Bennett’s book and website, which document over 300 logical fallacies.
- Cognitive Biases – Extensive list from The Decision Lab, which has lots of other good stuff.
- 31 Logical Fallacies in 8 Minutes – Jill Bearup’s sprint through a nice sampling of fallacies.
- 31 Cognitive Biases in 9 Minutes – Dr. Zack Hassan’s slightly less hectic tour of biases. Not sure why they both settled on 31…
Al Biles 