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Illustrated Critical Thinking Articles
Robert A. Johnson
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Thinkonomics
Illustrated Critical Thinking Articles
Robert A. Johnson
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What should we really think about nuclear weapons? Has the music industry gone one step too far? Should we farm free range humans?! Whilst you can't always answer the big - or small - questions in society, critically examining them allows you to better inform your opinions. Herein lies a plethora of critical thinking exercises to challenge your assumptions on a whole manner of things you almost certainly already have an opinion on. These beautifully illustrated critical thinking articles will take your thinking so far out of the box, you'll forget there even is one.
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introduction
should music be free?
what will become of the āgentlemanās gameā?
what is āvisionā and why do politicians not have it?
is mass political involvement/passion a good thing?
what effect does āmedia balanceā have?
are nuclear weapons good for the world?
can a refusal to use nuclear weapons ruin the deterrent?
why are we all so easily fooled by placebos?
should we be pro-choice or pro-life?
the moral worry in criminal allegations that we all like to ignore
prejudice or health promotion?
do we ask the wrong questions about public services?
how far should we expand ethics?
are we wrong about transgenderism?
what are menās rights activists missing?
is sentience a spectrum?
is separating races the best way to attack racism?
how do we ensure a neutral media?
things i believe that are probably false or correlations i have not examined the causation for
do analogies work?
is consciousness mysterious?
can computers become conscious? and should we be worried?
paradoxes probably donāt exist
does the subjective nature of ethics doom rational government and economics?
is your brain entirely reliant on context?
obsession with culture over humankind
should the olympics be modernised?
what are the rules of satire?
why is the absurd funny?
why do we embrace labels, but not evidence?
waste and the back of a sofa analogy
whatās in a word?
why you shouldnāt demonise economic growth
introduction
Thereās something innately funny and obvious about human bias. I fail to remember how many comedy sketches I have seen where one person tries in vain to crack a difficult lock, or to cut through a reinforced window, pulling the audience into his immense struggle, whilst his ally looks on ā puzzled ā right before turning the handle on the unlocked door.
Part of the reason that kind of sketch is so popular is because we relate. Weāre a species of smart, rational apes, who regularly miscalculate the level or type of reasoning needed for any given situation. Weāre capable of the most immense achievements imaginable, from space flight to ingenious medical techniques, yet reasonably often weāll set about trying to solve an impossible problem when a simpler way around it was facing us all the time. Likewise, when faced with impossible questions, which should beget uncertainty, we settle for simple, certain answers.
These essays and drawings are a way of celebrating this quirk, but more than that, are an attempt to get you thinking about and questioning all manner of interesting things you may not have realised are even up for debate. From important matters such as politics and economics, or more general topics such as comedy or arts, herein lies a wide variety of critical thinking topics.
But donāt be fooled into thinking this is some sort of guide to revolutionary thinking about society; it isnāt. Whilst I think some of these short pieces sum up unique and often ignored problems that few actually think about, others are putting a genuine debate across: not because I always disagree with how we currently think about the matter, but because I think we should consider things critically and challenge ourselves to defend our ideas. Even if they were right all along.
There is no necessary connection, from start to finish, other than that each article is putting forward an opinion or a debate which is often ignored ...