The Lost Art of Critical Thinking with Christopher Enoch

About this episode

Christopher Enoch discusses essential tools of critical thinking to help listeners build a solid foundation for truth-seeking.

Christopher Enoch discusses the essential tools of critical thinking, including Socratic questioning, naive realism, and steelmanning, helping listeners build a solid foundation for truth-seeking. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:11 Naive Realism: The Psychological Trap 24:17 Socratic Questioning & Autopsying Beliefs 47:25 Cognitive Dissonance & The Brain Scan 1:06:48 Steelmanning vs. Strawmanning 1:24:40 Falsifiability: The Magic Question 1:44:41 The Danger of Fallacy Sniping 2:04:48 Answering Viewer Comments

People in this episode

Host: Christopher Enoch

Topics covered

• critical thinking
• Socratic questioning
• naive realism
• cognitive dissonance
• steelman vs strawman
• truth-seeking

Keywords

• critical thinking
• Socratic questioning
• naive realism
• cognitive dissonance
• steelmanning
• fallacy sniping
• truth-seeking

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Books & works: The Lost Art of Critical Thinking

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