PHIL 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Currency Union, European Central Bank, Critical Thinking
26 Aug 2018
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Critical thinking: methods to assess by rational standards both beliefs and how we come to have them. The relation b/n beliefs and the reasons for holding them: whether certain reasons give us rational grounds for or justify us in taking certain belief to be true/false. Rational standards stylistic/aesthetic (how beautiful), psychological (effect of the belief on believer or others), moral (morally right or wrong), evolutionary (conducive to survival). Assessment standards: psychological, sociological, historical, evolutionary: explanation to how or why people come to their beliefs, doesn"t indicate true/false of beliefs. Focus is the true or falsity of the belief. The what of the belief falls within different disciplines but the how of the belief is critical thinking. Topic-neutrality allows critical thinking to be applied to any dimension of your life where beliefs form. The reasons behind why you think your belief is true is related to how much you care about that certain belief.
