“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.” – W.K. Clifford. (Do you agree?) #QuotationDay

Opportunity costs are the potential benefits lost when one chooses one option over another. e.g., “Given the fact that we could have been at the beach, the opportunity costs of attending this lecture are pretty high.” #TerminologyTuesday

Supreme Court Cases By Topic Read important U.S. Supreme Court decisions in areas ranging from abortion, gun rights, and elections to criminal procedure, due process, equal protection, and free speech.

Supreme Court cases are wonderful subjects for critical thinking. Here’s a nice source of landmark cases: supreme.justia.com/cases-by-top... #WebsiteWednesday

What Actually Works: Evidence-Based Learning Strategies for Critical Thinkers Cynthia Nebel, PhD, Director of Learning Services, St. Louis University School of Medicine Cognitive psychology offers strong evidence for strategies that significantly improve student learning. Yet…

What are two evidence-based practices to learn anything better? Find out here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwnD... #TalkThursday

Why We Repeat Decisions That No Longer Make Sense - Neuroscience News The brain favors repeating past actions over rational choice, explaining why we stick to habits even when better options exist.

We often do things simply because we’ve done them before. Learn more here:
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The Conspiracy Test A gamified interactive platform to help increase healthy skepticism for conspiracy theories. A collaboration between The School of Thought International and The University of Queensland’s Critical…

Want a fun, interactive, site about conspiracy theories? One with aliens? Of course you do. theconspiracytest.org #WebsiteWednesday

Why People Regret Decisions They Think About the Longest Sometimes, overthinking doesn’t just slow decisions; it rewrites your memory of them and creates regret. In this post, we'll discuss how to minimize decision regret.

Sometimes we regret the decisions that we’ve thought about the longest. Here’s why: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-... #NewsdayTuesday

Why you think you're right -- even if you're wrong | Julia Galef Perspective is everything, especially when it comes to examining your beliefs. Are you a soldier, prone to defending your viewpoint at all costs — or a scout, spurred by curiosity? Julia Galef…

The soldier mindset focuses on winning, and the scout mindset prioritizes accurate understanding. It’s important to cultivate the scout mindset, especially when we really want to win. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4RL... #TalkThursday

Productive Dialogue Visit the post for more.

You can find resources to support productive dialogue in this new website. productivedialogue.org #WebsiteWednesday

If we’re cognitively overloaded, we resort to mental shortcuts that can lead to bad decisions. One solution is to cultivate deliberate calm when stakes are high. Read more here: www.mckinsey.com/capabilities... #NewsdayTuesday

The False Consensus Effect is the tendency to overestimate the extent to which other people share one’s own viewpoint, e.g., “There’s no way I would walk around with a ‘Repent’ sign. I bet most other people wouldn’t either.” spsp.org/news-center/... #FallacyFriday

Ethics of Argumentation Speaker Series Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

The Ethics of Argumentation Speaker Series offers a host of excellent talks. You can find them here: www.youtube.com/channel/UCF5.... #TalkThursday

Home Braver Angels is a citizens’ organization uniting red and blue Americans in a working alliance to depolarize America

Braver Angeles works to bridge partisan divides by encouraging clear thinking and productive conversations. Take a look! braverangels.org #WebsiteWednesday

"Truth springs from argument amongst friends." - David Hume. #QuotationDay

The Fallacy of Impossible Expectations rejects a claim or proposal because it fails to meet unrealistically high standards, e.g., “You think we should put policies in place to control the misuse of AI in schools, but no policy will prevent cheating entirely.” #FallacyFriday

The AI Paradox In a world, where to cost of answers is dropping to zero, the value of the question becomes everything... Learn the hard way, click https://boot.dev/?promo=ART and use my code ART to get 25% off…

Here’s a very good video about how to (and how not to) think with AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcol... #TalkThursday

Homepage - Cranky Uncle The Cranky Uncle game uses cartoons and critical thinking to fight misinformation. The game was developed by University of Melbourne scientist John Cook, in collaboration with creative agency…

Check out Cranky Uncle! It’s a game that “uses cartoons and critical thinking to fight misinformation.” And it’s free on iPhone and Android. crankyuncle.com #WebsiteWednesday

Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus In the 1897 editorial response from the “New York Sun,” a young girl named Virginia O’Hanlon questions the existence of Santa Claus. The editor reassures her, affirming that Santa…

The “Yes, Virginia” fallacy makes a claim true or defensible by redefining one of its central terms. christmasstories.org/yes-virginia... #FallacyFriday

Street Epistemology | Critically Reflective Conversations for Everyone Street Epistemology is a way to help people critically reflect on the quality of their reasoning through civil conversations.

“Street Epistemology is a way to help people critically reflect on the quality of their reasoning through civil conversation.” Check it out at www.streetepistemology.com #WebsiteWednesday

You care about what you think and avoid being taken in by scams or con artists. We imagine that’s true. It’s also a Barnum Statement. www.britannica.com/science/Barn... #FallacyFriday

Better Disagreement through Simplified Argument Mapping, Disguised as a Game. Point Taken (https://pointtaken.social/) is a kitchen-table intervention designed to create clear and calm disagreements, by combining the best prescriptions from conflict resolution and critical…

If you’ve ever wanted a fun, game-like way, to talk about difficult topics, look no further than Steve Franconeri’s Point Taken! youtu.be/ifyrjHtkeGg?... #TalkThursday

Even in a simple game, our brains keep score – and those scores shape every choice we make Humans are surprisingly bad at being unpredictable.

“[P]eople who stop overanalysing the past may have a better chance at winning in the future.” theconversation.com/even-in-a-si... #NewsdayTuesday

Windsor Studies in Argumentation WSIA aims to publish timely works in the theory of argumentation -- understood broadly, in a way that encompasses logic, informal logic, rhetoric, dialectics, and related fields. This is reflected…

Windsor Studies in Argumentation, windsor.scholarsportal.info/omp/index.ph..., publishes works in a wide range of fields, including informal logic, critical thinking, and rhetoric. Many books are open access! #WebsiteWednesday

A Smarter Way to Disagree To foster constructive disagreements, organizations should encourage individuals to modify their observable behaviors during conflicts. More specifically, the authors’ research has shown that…

“[People] should be more attentive to their linguistic behavior—to carefully choose the words they speak—because unlike a person’s thoughts and feelings, language is observable…”
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How People React to Being Straw-Manned: An Empirical Study Jennifer Schumann, Department of English, University of Fribourg (Switzerland) John Case, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern Illinois University Scott Aikin, Department of Philosophy,…

How do people react when presented with a straw man of their own view? Find out here!
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Our worldviews can affect our interpretations. If two people are walking in the woods and encounter a haze, one person might see it as fog while another might see it as a ghost. Boo! #FactFriday

Inoculating Minds Against Misinformation… By Creating It! by Prof. Melanie Trecek-King, Director of Education, Mental Immunity Project Fighting misinformation can feel like a never-ending battle. Instead of trying to debunk every false claim, prebunk! By…

Looking for a fun way to combat misinformation? Well, here you go! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJSW... #TalkThursday

The Category Error involves treating something in one kind of category as if it belonged to another kind of category. E.g., “The average man is about 5 foot 9 inches tall. I wonder if he lives and if he knows my parents.” #FallacyFriday

People disregard advice when making tough decisions, international study finds An international study surveying people in a dozen countries found that when it comes to making complex decisions, people all over the world tend to reflect on their own, rather than seek advice.

“An international study ... found that when it comes to making complex decisions, people all over the world tend to reflect on their own, rather than seek advice.” phys.org/news/2025-08...
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Brave Conversations: Teaching the art of disagreement in an age of discomfort A new project is training students and staff to navigate disagreement with empathy, courage, and critical skill.

Monash University has launched the Brave Conversations project to encourage productive discourse about controversial and polarizing topics. Learn more here:
lens.monash.edu/@politics-so...
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