Critical Thinking Skeptical Inquiry Science in Society

Sites related to logical thought and for the advancement of rational thinking and reasoning. Not a category for sites about issues, but for sites which can help us learn to make fair and sensible judgements about all issues.

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• 2think.org - Collection of book reviews and essays, mostly on popular science, with an emphasis on science as a guide to truth. Also includes a discussion forum.
  
• National Center for Teaching Thinking - A service organization for educators dedicated to providing programs for K - 12 schools and colleges on teaching and assessing skillful thinking,.
  
• Mission: Critical - Tutorial for critical thinking.
  
• Real-World Reasoning - A course given by Peter Suber for high-school students as an introduction to college.
  
• Thinking Straight: Internet Resources - Categorized directory of web-based resources on critical thinking.
  
• Critical Thinking across the Curriculum Project - Definitions, examples and argument analysis, from Longview Community College.
  
• Critical Thinking Study Topics - Student study guide on psychological manipulation, cult groups, sects, and new religious movements.
  
• Skeptopix - A collection of links to audio and video files, all on skeptical topics. Lectures, interviews, discussions.
  
• Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena - Provides a weekly podcast dedicated to furthering knowledge by eliminating the widespread pseudosciences that infect popular culture.
  
• Responsible Thinking - Online book by Bob Korn promoting critical thinking. Outline, contact information.
  
• An Experiment in Group Learning Technology - The results of a study designed to measure critical thinking in face-to-face and computer-supported seminars.
  
• Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking - Addressing strange phenomena with the mindset, "What are the facts and what can we deduce from them?"
  
• Thinking is Critical - Provider of educational programs that promote critical thinking for students and corporations.
  
• The-Thinking-Edge.com - Presents methods for deep, focused, individual thinking along with examples from real life.
  
• The Church of Critical Thinking - Dedicated to spreading the word about cynical reasoning in established religion, politics, the paranormal beliefs, as well as anything else that people tend to accept blindly. "Your Suspicion is Our Mission".
  
• Digital Bits Skeptic - Skepticism and critical thinking articles.
  
• Ukrainian Virtual Center of Critical Thinking - Aims to stimulate critical thinking not only in science and education but in everyday life. Provides information on educational materials and a textbook.
  
• Resources for Independent Thinking - Many essays and articles covering topics related to thinking for one's self.
  
• The Critical Thinking Community - Providing a forum and resources about Socratic questioning, higher order thinking, and critical thinking. Organizer of conferences and publisher of books and academic resources for teachers.
  
• A Field Guide to Critical Thinking (Skeptical Inquirer Winter 1990) - Six rules of evidential reasoning, a distillation and simplification of the scientific method. Ignoring the vowels, the letters in the word "FiLCHeRS" stand for the rules of Falsifiability, Logic, Comprehensiveness, Honesty, Replicability, and
  
• The Business of Thinking - On applied thinking, the pitfalls and roadblocks to good thinking, and effective techniques.
  
• So You Want to Avoid Common Logical Errors? - Gives logical errors a name and points out the most common logical errors and how to avoid them.
  
• Skeptical Analysis of the Paranormal Society (SAPS) - A group devoted to debunking, re-creating, and explaining popular claims of paranormal activity.
  
• Open Courseware on Critical Thinking - Over one hundred tutorials on critical thinking, logic, scientific reasoning, creativity, and other aspects of thinking skills.
  
• Propaganda and How to Recognize It - Essay on propaganda techniques. [PDF]
  
• Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) - A non-profit scholarly association which aims to promote research into, teaching of, and testing of informal logic and critical thinking.
  
  

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