SSH 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Critical Thinking, Relativism, Peer Pressure

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 105
• Professor: David Hunter

Document Summary

Critical thinking is reasonable and reflective thinking that is aimed at deciding what to believe and what to do. Belief and justified but not true (b j not true) (unlucky) Belief and true but unjustified (b t not justified) (getting lucky) True and justified but no belief (t j no belief) (denial) Comes from the latin word of nothing. Argument from disagreement (for moral relativism: there is a considerable sincere disagreement about morality, if there is considerable sincere disagreement about morality, then moral relativism is true, so moral relativism is true. It is best to assume that realism is the proper attitude to take towards some subject matter, unless we have really good reason to think otherwise. The strategies and methods we will study all assume that truth is independent of our beliefs. A belief is justified if it based or grounded in good reasons. An athlete believes that she is the best even though she may not be.