At Portland Community College (Oregon) I took a class called ‘Science and the Paranormal.’ On the first day of class the teacher said ‘if I’d called this class ‘Critical Thinking’ most of the seats would be empty. As it is, I have a waiting list each term.′ It was all critical thinking / formal logic / scientific method / etc. that used student-suggested paranormal topics. No judgement before investigation, no claim of true / false only strong / weak evidence. He did discourage religious claims getting the same treatment in order to ‘be sensitive’ (avoid lawsuits). Otherwise, perfect stem to stern.
At Portland Community College (Oregon) I took a class called ‘Science and the Paranormal.’ On the first day of class the teacher said ‘if I’d called this class ‘Critical Thinking’ most of the seats would be empty. As it is, I have a waiting list each term.′ It was all critical thinking / formal logic / scientific method / etc. that used student-suggested paranormal topics. No judgement before investigation, no claim of true / false only strong / weak evidence. He did discourage religious claims getting the same treatment in order to ‘be sensitive’ (avoid lawsuits). Otherwise, perfect stem to stern.
Makes sense that lesson one in the critical thinking course would be about short-circuiting students’ normal thinking :P