Qualifikationsziele: Students will gain in-depth knowledge and understanding about critical thinking perspectives related to their research and decision making. They will be able to reflect on their own research and evaluate others by using cognitive heuristics and by identifying biases, fallacies and paradoxes. Inhalte: Deeper insight into selected topics in critical thinking from philosophical, psychological, educational and biological aspects. Reading and reflecting on seminal original papers in the field. Performing reflective analysis of personal research and critically evaluating others in whole-class presentations and small group work. In the weekly lectures, each meeting will focus on a different critical thinking aspect or cognitive bias. There will be a home task each week in which students will provide comments or a paper or perform some activity. close

Papers: Ausloos et al., 2016; Dito & Lopey 1991; Enis, 1993; Gigerenzer 1991; Kahan et al., 2017; Kruger & Dunning, 1999; Stanovich et al., 2013; Osborne et al., 2018; Pronin et al., 2002; Tversky & Kahneman, 1974; Wagner, 1994; Wason & Evans, 1974. Books: Burnett, 2017 (Idiot Brain); Grant, 2021 (Think Again); Haidt, 2012 (The Righteous Mind); Kahneman, 2011 (Thinking, Fast and Slow); Lewis, 2016 (The Undoing Project); Mercier & Sperber (The Enigma of Reason), 2017. close