PHILOS 2CT3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Philosophical Skepticism, Left Out, Critical Thinking
8 Feb 2016
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Because we are fallible beings, there are thousands of ways critical thinking can go wrong. In order to properly use critical thinking you need to. Restrain attitudes and feelings that may distort our reasoning. Achieve a level of objectivity that makes critical thinking possible. Hindrances that arise because of how we think. Those that occur because of why we think. Category 1: psychological factors (fears, attitudes, motivations and desires). Category 2: certain philosophical ideals (our beliefs about beliefs). Matches to our peers feeling like thinking is impossible. Don"t accept claims solely because it furthers your interests. Follow 3 rules of critical thinking for self-interest: Be alert to ways that critical thinking can be undermined. Ensure that nothing has been left out. You usually let your self-interests get in the way when you have high stakes in a given. You want a specific something to be true, you want a certain individual to be situation wrong, etc.
