CAS PH 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Philosophical Skepticism, Wishful Thinking, Peer Pressure
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2 categories factors (fears, attitudes, motivations: hindrances that arise because of how we think come into play due to psychological, hindrances that arise because of what we think 0philosophical factors (our beliefs about beliefs) Worldview: philosophy of life, a set of fundamental ideas that helps us make sense of a wide range of important issues in life, include answers to the q"s: What is real? can we really have knowledge? what is morality, can we really be moral? . What is beauty, exists or a subjective delusion? . Your believing that something is true doesn"t make it true beliefs are relative to subjective relative beliefs. Subjective relativism: the idea that truth depends on what someone believes; one commits subjectivist fallacy if one accepts this notion or uses it to try to support a claim. Critical thinking is largely about determining what"s objectively true and what"s not.
