Curious, Thorough, and Open

I should spend more time in Critical Thinking class on cultivating an intellectually honest mindset, specifically the virtues of curiosity and thoroughness, not just open-mindedness. (chapter 2 - Mindset - of Reason Better by David Manley)

Bayes As Odds

 An intuitive way to understand Bayesian updating is via odds instead of probabilities or percentages. (chapter 8 - Updating - of Reason Better by David Manley)

Scaffolding

One way to address my worry that philosophy classes inadvertently teach students that reasoning skills are useless is to better scaffold courses, beginning with puzzles that are clearly solvable using reasoning.

Fake-Data Simulation

Fake-data simulation is an extension of abductive reasoning, specifically exploring the implications of various competing hypotheses.

Deference and Meritocracy

I may need to figure out the tension in my thoughts on deference to experts and criticisms of meritocracy.

Focus on Disconfirmation

The confirmation/disconfirmation bias asymmetry is such that our criticisms of opposing arguments are more epistemically valuable than our own arguments for our positions.

Keep It Simple: Blame Epistemic Vices

Epistemic vices may be more relevant to the spread of misinformation than politicization and polarization.

Cardiologists Aren't Immoral

An intuitively overwhelming number of examples is often still a small sample.

Listen to Experts

Philosophy's individualistic methodology has made me overconfident in my ability to figure out an issue by researching it on my own rather than reaching out and listening to relevant experts outside of philosophy

Epistemic Dependence

I haven't emphasized the importance of epistemic dependence as an intellectual virtue to my critical thinking students.