Thinking Clearly
By Bob Froehlich-Retired Chemist, Counselor, Psychology Professor and Julia Mi
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In this age of fake news, alternative facts and information overload, this podcast offers cognitive self-defense strategies and topics that will help you understand and master critical thinking in forming your claims beliefs and opinions.
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#114-Major Themes in Thinking Clearly-with Bob And Julia
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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#113-Recalling Defeating Disinformation and Protecting Democracy-with guest Lee McIntyre
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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#112-Bob and Julia Unleashed
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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#111-AI-Assisted Tools in Education and How AI Might Assist our Critical Thinking-with guest Kyle Falbo
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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#110-The Role of Emotions in Thinking and Learning-with guest Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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#109-The Moves that Matter in Crafting Persuasive Arguments and Communicating them Effectively-with guests Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein-Graff
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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#108-Teaching Critical Thinking to Kids-with guest Stephanie Simoes
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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#107-How Institutionalizing Deliberative Political Processes Can Lead to Deliberative Democracy and Reduce Polarization-with guest Jim Fishkin
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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#106- The Role of Logic in Acquiring Knowledge and Forming Beliefs-with guest Patrick Hurley
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May 26, 2025 |
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#105-The Epidemic of Political Lying and the Importance of Fact-checking-with guest Bill Adair
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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#104-The Importance of Trust in Information and Institutions-revisited
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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#103-Worldview-The Elephant in the Room of Critical Thinking-updated for 2025
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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#102-Worldviews and How they Guide our Beliefs-with guest Annick de Witt
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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#101-The Virtues of Evidence-Based Policy Making-with guest Robert MacCoun
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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#100-Foundations and Future of Critical Thinking-with guest Kevin deLaplante
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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#99-How internet influencers, algorithms and crowds are altering our politics, our society and our very relationship to reality-with guest Renée DiResta.mp3
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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#98-The Nature of Curiosity and it's implications for Critical Thinking-with guest Jacqueline Gottlieb
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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#97-How to Navigate the Challenges of Living in a Divided Nation-with guest Tania Israel
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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#96-Using practices and tools from science while also learning how to weave together facts and values to rebuild trust and cooperation-with guest Robert MacCoun
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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#95-Critical Thinking and the Nature of Human Consciousness-with guest Anil Seth
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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#94-The Essence of Critical Thinking and Demonstrations of How to Have Civil Dialogues
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May 28, 2024 |
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#93-Critical Thinking Fundamentals and how to find truth in all the noise-with guest Dr. Seema Yasmin
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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#92-Election 2024 Preparation 4-Teaching Critical Thinking to American Military Future Leaders-with Guest Stephen Gerras
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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#91-How artificial intelligence can help us understand human cognition-with guest Leslie Valiant
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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#90-Election 2024 Preparation 3-Hidden Tribes and the Perception Gap-with guest Stephen Hawkins
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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#89-Election 2024 Preparation 2-Political Depolarization and the Work of Braver Angels-with guest Ciaran O'Connor
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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#88-What's new in teaching critical thinking and advances in the mental immunity approach for combating misinformation with guest Melanie Trecek-King
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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#87-Election 2024 Preparation—The Importance of Critical Thinking to Democracy, with guest Timothy Redmond
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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#86-Disinformation-its creators, amplifiers and believers-and how to fight for truth and protect democracy with guest Lee McIntyre
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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#85-Critical thinking in health and medicine and the importance of critical thinking in pandemics and other national and international health crises
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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# 84-Top pick episode after seven years-Johnathan Rauch and the Constitution of Knowledge
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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#83-Bob and Julia discuss Artificial Intelligence
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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#82-Teaching and Learning Critical Thinking and Recognizing Unsubstantiated Claims-with guest Alan Bensley
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May 24, 2023 |
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#81-Actively Open-minded Thinking-with guest Emlen Metz
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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#80- Virtues, Benefits and Joy of Critical Thinking and Science Appreciation-with Guy Harrison
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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#79-How critical thinking can make us better citizens and cure our ailing democracy-with guest Timothy Redmond
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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#78-Celebrating Skilled Intuition-a second look at Naturalistic Decision Making with guest Gary Klein
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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#77-The journey from the world of magicians and psychics to becoming a skeptical activist who promotes science and critical thinking-with guest Mark Edward
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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#76-How mathematics can improve our lives and make us better critical thinkers-with guest John Allen Paulos
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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#75-How to Get Real by Mastering and Using Critical Thinking-with guest Jon Guy
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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#74-Teaching and Learning Critical Thinking—back to the basics—with Melanie Trecek-King
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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#73-Back to the Nuts and Bolts of Critical Thinking-with guest James Zimring
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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#72-Trust and the Semantic Pointer Theory of Cognition-with Paul Thagard
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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#71-The Nature of Trust in this age of Polarization-with guest Kevin Vallier
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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#70-The Nature of Trust
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May 05, 2022 |
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#69-Strategies for Constructive Conversations-with guest Tania Israel
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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#68-Hidden Tribes and the Perception Gap-with guest Stephen Hawkins
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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#67-Street Epistemology-with guest Anthony Magnabosco
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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#66-Political Depolarization and the Work of Braver Angels-with guest Ciaran O'Connor
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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#65-Considering Risks and Benefits of our Actions and Beliefs-with guest David Ropeik
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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#64-Bob and Julia discuss perspectives to help understand dysfunction in the ability of people with opposing views to have productive dialogues
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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#63- How Reality-Based Communities and the Constitution of Knowledge Can Help Turn Disagreement into Truth-with guest Jonathan Rauch
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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#62-How to Talk to a Science Denier-with guest Lee McIntyre
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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#61-Teaching Critical Thinking to American Military Future Leaders-with Guest Stephen Gerras
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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#60-The Attention Economy-with Guest Michael H. Goldhaber
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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#59-Deep Questions about Critical Thinking
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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#58-Exploring the New Science of Cognitive Immunology-with Guest Andy Norman
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May 08, 2021 |
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#57-Political Depolarization-How to Navigate Political Discussions with Friends and Family-with guest Bill Doherty
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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#56-The Relationship of Group Identity to Critical Thinking-with Guest Amber Gaffney
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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#55-How to Identify BS and When and How to Challenge It-with Guest Jevin West
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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#54-Perspectives of Human Cognition as Critical Thinking Tools and How to Prevent the Infocalypse
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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#53-Truth in Politics and the Pro-Truth Pledge-with Guest Tim Ward
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Dec 05, 2020 |
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#52-Demonstration of a step by step information vetting process
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Nov 07, 2020 |
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#51-The Nature of Truth-A Civil Dialogue between a Theist, an Agnostic and an Atheist
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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#50-Vetting Information Using Critical Thinking Skills
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Sep 05, 2020 |
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#49-Essential Knowledge About Critical Thinking-with Guest Jonathan Haber
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Aug 08, 2020 |
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#48-Countering Misinformation-with Guest John Cook
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Jul 04, 2020 |
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#47-Best Practices in Critical Thinking-with Guest Professor Emeritus Anthony Weston
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Jun 06, 2020 |
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#46-Critical Thinking in the Time of Crisis
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May 09, 2020 |
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#45-Music and the Arts Meet Critical Thinking and Science-Guest Baba Brinkman
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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#44-Interactive Resources for Sharpening your Critical Thinking Skills-with Guest Spencer Greenberg
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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#43-Critical Thinking and How Our Brain Constructs Reality
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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#42-False Beliefs in our Democracy-How they Spread and Persist-with Guest Cailin O'Connor
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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#41-Belief Formation, Influence of Beliefs on Reasoning, and Belief Change-with guest Michael Wolfe
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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#40-How Tribalism, Arrogance and Conviction Work Against Seeking Truth-with guest Michael Lynch
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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#39-Bob and Julia discuss the base rate fallacy, superforecasting, and regression to the mean
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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#38-Guest Professor Lee McIntyre discusses Science Denial, the Scientific Attitude and Related Topics
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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#37-Bob and Julia Discuss Claims, Conclusions, Opinions, Beliefs, Open-mindedness and the Skeptics Sniff Test
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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#36-Using and editing Wikipedia and the relationship of skepticism to critical thinking with guest, Susan Gerbic
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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#35-The Relationship of Critical Thinking to Cultural Cognition and Identity Protective Cognition with Guest John Gastil
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May 03, 2019 |
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#34-Some Math and Statistics Topics that Serve as Important Tools for Critical Thinkers-with Guest, John Allen Paulos
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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#33-Critical Thinking Involving Moral Issues with Guest, Philosophy Professor Benjamin Shaeffer
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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#32-A Discussion of Teaching, Learning and Practicing Critical Thinking with "Critical Thinking" textbook author Richard Parker
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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#31-Bob and Julia discuss skepticism, world views, the importance of critical thinking, and a bundle of other topics with guest George Hrab
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Jan 04, 2019 |
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#30-Bob and Julia discuss Tribalism and Polarization, Cultural Cognition, and preview topics and guests for future shows
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Dec 07, 2018 |
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#29-Skilled Intuition-the positive side of our fast thinking-with guest, Dr. Gary Klein
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Nov 02, 2018 |
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#28-Bob and Julia discuss the top 3 things they've learned from doing the show.
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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#27-The Importance of Understanding and Engaging in Rational Arguments-a conversation with Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
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Sep 07, 2018 |
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#26-Understanding Risk-Benefit Assessment-with Professor Daniel Cole
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Aug 03, 2018 |
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#25-The Effect of Tribalism and Polarization on Critical Thinking-part 2
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Jul 06, 2018 |
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#24-The Effect of Tribalism and Polarization on Critical Thinking
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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#23-Revisiting Critical Thinking a review of concepts and topics
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May 04, 2018 |
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#22-Worldview-The Elephant in the Room of Critical Thinking
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Apr 06, 2018 |
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#21-Having Civil Dialogues-part 3 (demonstration of civil dialogue)
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Mar 02, 2018 |
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#20-Having Civil Dialogues-part 2
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Feb 02, 2018 |
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#19-Having Civil Dialogues
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Jan 05, 2018 |
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#18-Critical Thinking About Moral Issues
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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#17-Motivated Reasoning and Related Topics with Professor Peter Ditto
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Nov 03, 2017 |
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#16-The Big Picture of Cognitive Science and Its Relation to Critical Thinking
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Oct 06, 2017 |
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#15-New Approaches to Learning the Process of Critical Thinking with guest Dr. Kevin deLaplante
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Sep 09, 2017 |