Responsible
Thinking

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The Importance of Responsible Thinking

Do we care whether our beliefs are true?
Good people cause evil
Solving human problems
The explosion of bull

The Nature of Responsible Thinking

Responsible Thinking vs. Critical Thinking
The nature of truth
Common causes of false beliefs
Telling truth vs. seeking truth

Principles of Responsible Thinking

Polarization
Believing other people
- Powerful Authorities
  - A Deceptive Political Commercial
- Marketing and con games
- More marketing revised Dec 22, 2009
- Deception in Bulk Mail
- Religious and supernatural frauds
- Some recent television commercials added Feb 8, 2010
  - Commercials from 2004
  - Commercials from 1998
- Sincere Authorities
Analyzing Arguments and Evidence
- Black and white
- Hidden assumptions
- Cultural assumptions
- Testability
- Suggestion and Perception
- Decisions and Alternatives
- Changing Your Perspective
- Mathematical Logic and Reasoning
- Intuition
- Combining Reasoning and Intuition
- Avoiding Bias
- Rationalization
- Superstition
- Believing Fiction
- Quantity and Measurement added May 11, 2009
- Word Definitions
- Large and Small Quantities
- Zero-sum Games
- Misleading Statistics
- Unfair Sampling
- Free Inquiry added June 16, 2009
- Vague Claims
- Faulty Logic
Science revised April 25, 2010
- What's wrong with science
- Experiments
Arguing
Problem solving
Guidelines

Promoting Responsible Thinking

Strategy

Appendix