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That has not been my experience, I'm afraid. The impression I keep getting is that (with due respect to "the power of the context" http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004
by leoc 8y ago
That has not been my experience, I'm afraid. The impression I keep getting is that (with due respect to "the power of the context" http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004001_power.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004001_power.pdf) teaching someone about fallacies automatically makes them about 15 IQ stupider. In general there's a lot to be said for this oversimplified mental model: "exposing a human being to moral or logical education just leads him to spin out more alluring and more effectively deceptive rationalisations for the stupid and despicable things he was going to do anyway".
- cornholio 8y agoThat's a great way to put it. That's not to say that reason cannot be learned, but that it isn't a subject in itself, there is no such thing as a 'critical thinking' curriculum. You learn critical thinking by thinking.
- pas 8y agoThere are courses that try to teach applied rationality. I don't know how successful they are.
- repolfx 8y agoThe point of learning about fallacies, logic and reason is not to stop people doing something they were already committed to doing and have incorporated into their identity. The point is to stop them from picking up new ideas that don't hold logical water, before they've created any emotional commitment to them.
- mercer 8y agohttps://existentialcomics.com/comic/9 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/9