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Table of Contents
Intro
Preface
Contents
1 Introduction Part 1
What is Critical Thinking?
Between Blind Faith in Authority and Naive Scepticism
What is Being Critically Analysed?
Claims About "How" and "Why"
"Is that Really So?"
"How Do We Know-And with What Degree of Certainty?"
"Could It Be Any Other Way?"
Tendency Analysis
Lack of Information and Ignorance
Psychological Perspectives
Cognitive Dissonance and Critical Thinking
Selective Source Criticism-Confirmation and Myside Bias
Critical Thinking as a Quality
Philosophical Perspectives
Hume's Law-Facts and Values
Values First, Critical Thinking Training Second?
Does Critical Thinking Have an Ideological Colour?
Further Reading-Literature on Critical Thinking
References
2 Introduction Part 2
Making Source-Critical Arguments
Four Principles of Source Criticism
Who, What, How, When and Why?
Refer-Plagiarise
Information Search Tools
Copyright and Creative Commons
The Harvard System
News Consumption
What Will Be News?
Credibility of News
Objective/Subjective Source
Wikipedia as a Source of Information
How Does Wikipedia Work?
Images and Films-What I See, I See, Right?
YouTube as an Information Channel
Conspiracies and Alternative Facts
Conspiracy and Doomsday Theories
Fake News and Clickbait
Source Criticism in Several Curricula/Single Subjects
Historical Sources
Mathematical Sources
Search Engine Optimisation
What is Search Engine Optimisation?
Top Level Domain
Social Media
New Situations Require New Conversations
Safe Online and Social Communication
Final Words
Research Assignment in the Form of Project Work
References
Preface
Contents
1 Introduction Part 1
What is Critical Thinking?
Between Blind Faith in Authority and Naive Scepticism
What is Being Critically Analysed?
Claims About "How" and "Why"
"Is that Really So?"
"How Do We Know-And with What Degree of Certainty?"
"Could It Be Any Other Way?"
Tendency Analysis
Lack of Information and Ignorance
Psychological Perspectives
Cognitive Dissonance and Critical Thinking
Selective Source Criticism-Confirmation and Myside Bias
Critical Thinking as a Quality
Philosophical Perspectives
Hume's Law-Facts and Values
Values First, Critical Thinking Training Second?
Does Critical Thinking Have an Ideological Colour?
Further Reading-Literature on Critical Thinking
References
2 Introduction Part 2
Making Source-Critical Arguments
Four Principles of Source Criticism
Who, What, How, When and Why?
Refer-Plagiarise
Information Search Tools
Copyright and Creative Commons
The Harvard System
News Consumption
What Will Be News?
Credibility of News
Objective/Subjective Source
Wikipedia as a Source of Information
How Does Wikipedia Work?
Images and Films-What I See, I See, Right?
YouTube as an Information Channel
Conspiracies and Alternative Facts
Conspiracy and Doomsday Theories
Fake News and Clickbait
Source Criticism in Several Curricula/Single Subjects
Historical Sources
Mathematical Sources
Search Engine Optimisation
What is Search Engine Optimisation?
Top Level Domain
Social Media
New Situations Require New Conversations
Safe Online and Social Communication
Final Words
Research Assignment in the Form of Project Work
References