Tools of Thinking 2 Which Tools of Thinking Are Basic?

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Tools of Thinking: Understanding the World through Experience and Reason

"In short, what is the best way to think?"

At each meeting, we watch / listen to a lecture together and then discuss it together.

Typically, we cover one lecture per week. See the event’s title for what lecture is for that event.

Here is the full list of lectures for the course:

1 What Are "Tools of Thinking"?
2 Which Tools of Thinking Are Basic?
3 Platonic Intuition, Memory, and Reason
4 Intuition, Memory, and Reason—Problems
5 Sense Experience—A More Modern Take
6 Observation and Immediate Inferences
7 Further Immediate Inferences
8 Categorical Syllogisms
9 Ancient Logic in Modern Dress
10 Systematic Doubt and Rational Certainty
11 The Limits of Sense Experience
12 Inferences Demand Relevant Evidence
13 Proper Inferences Avoid Equivocation
14 Induction Is Slippery but Unavoidable
15 The Scientific Revolution
16 Hypotheses and Experiments—A First Look
17 How Empirical Is Modern Empiricism?
18 Hypotheses and Experiments—A Closer Look
19 "Normal Science" at Mid-Century
20 Modern Logic—Truth Tables
21 Modern Logic—Sentential Arguments
22 Modern Logic—Predicate Arguments
23 Postmodern and New-Age Problems
24 Rational Empiricism in the 21st Century