30527 - SEMINARIO DI CRITICAL THINKING / CRITICAL THINKING SEMINAR
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Class group/s taught in English
Class-group lessons delivered on campus
The aim of the seminar is to acquaint students with the most important patterns of reasoning used in social sciences and decision-making. This is done by considering the characteristics of these patterns, their diverse applications, and the psychological biases that affect human reasoning. Each session of the seminar starts with a case study to be discussed in class, enhances a specific set of skills, and includes some tests, or experiments, to help students to understand the potential biases in reasoning and judgment.
- What is an argument?
- How to challenge an argument.
- Pragmatics of argumentation.
- Reasoning with conditionals.
- Reasoning with analogies and explanations.
- Reasoning with causes.
- Reasoning with probabilities.
- Counterfactual reasoning.
- Identify the structure of an argument.
- Use arguments to counter other arguments.
- Understand how arguments are used in human communication.
- Evaluate conditional reasoning.
- Explain a fact or event by using analogies.
- Identify the relationship between a cause and an effect.
- Predict an event based on existing information.
- Draw a conclusion about reality, by imagining a situation that does not actually take place.
- Determine under what conditions an argument is sound.
- Choose the proper argument to counter other arguments in reasoning.
- Apply arguments strategically in interpersonal communication.
- Assess a conclusion based on conditional statements.
- Determine whether the explanation of a fact is convincing.
- Determine whether a fact can be considered the cause of another fact.
- Use statistics to justify a standpoint.
- Evaluate the relevance of a counterfactual situation in decision-making.
- Face-to-face lectures
- Exercises (exercises, database, software etc.)
- Case studies /Incidents (traditional, online)
- Interactive class activities (role playing, business game, simulation, online forum, instant polls)
- Exercises: at the end of each session of the seminar the students are provided with a self-evaluation test.
- Case-studies: each session of the seminar starts with the discussion of a practical case presented through a short video, or through a series of slides.
- Interactive class activities: the course includes tests and experiments that are carried out in class.
Continuous assessment | Partial exams | General exam | |
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