People often point out logical fallacies like the straw man and ad hominem. Here are three others that are prevalent but ...

In a June column, I argued that citizens have an ethical obligation to others to think critically and value the truth and facts, even if they are contrary to strong personal emotions and group-held ...

People often ask me how they can avoid misinformation. I wish there was an easy answer, but effectively avoiding misinformation means reevaluating our relationship with information. The perpetuation ...

If you’ve been looking for a crash course in basic logic — or just want to explain to a friend exactly what a logical fallacy is — turn your attention to these simple, easy-to-understand videos, which ...

This will be the third and last post in a series dealing with the ways in which depressed thinking is also illogical thinking. The hope is that for some people dealing with depression, this might be ...

What is the Ad Hominem Fallacy? The ad hominem fallacy occurs when someone attacks the person making an argument rather than the argument itself. This fallacy diverts attention from the actual issue ...

"Critical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and hatred for every kind of ...

"Critical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and hatred for every kind of ...

The first logic class I ever took was in a philosophy course in college. And that’s part of the problem. I don’t mean the problem with me, though there are many. I mean the problem with our politics, ...

Several recent studies identifying the weak spots in both American K-12 and college education, like Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s A movement to implement critical thinking courses peaked around l980 ...