PERIDEXION
Intelligent is the ability to apply the information one learned through education.
Scientific Thinking helps bridge the gap toward intelligence.
Imagine if engineers designed bridges based not on math and tested physics, but on what they feel should work instead. based on the beauty of their designs. So convinced of the brilliance of their designs, they built them, never testing. They then defend their bridges as correct afterwards, rejecting any critiques as uneducated or immoral, and any failure in function as anything but a failure in design. How many bridges would still be standing today? This is how we humans tend to think:
We naturally believe first and rationalize later, often leading to failure.
But we can learn to reason first and believe later, mitigating avoidable missteps in thinking.
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We humans tend to overestimate our intellectual abilities.
resulting from naivety, ignorance, and fallacious thinking.
Scientific Thinking is about becoming less dumb.
Through developing critical thinking skills, scientific theory, and humility,
we can help ourselves achieve success by learning to avoid obvious missteps,
and grow intellectually in the process.
Learn LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE
Examine CONTEXT
Discern SEMANTICS
Construct LOGICAL ARGUMENTS
Recognize LOGICAL FALLACIES
Understand COGNITIVE BIASES
Apply SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Reframe COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
Enact DIALECTIC DISCOURSE
As birds fly, humans reason.
Reason is the human superpower.
When mastered, we can predict the future, discover hidden mysteries of the cosmos,
craft sapient machines, and save lives.
Critical Thinking Education done right:
from a Scientific Perspective
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Everyone! Almost... This course is designed for everyone with a grasp on the English language and over the age of 14. Our Socratic format allows the course to be tailored to any audience: from Middle School Students to Undergraduates to Business Professionals.
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Improve conflict resolution -- Manage diverse perspectives -- Construct & Deconstruct logical arguments -- Challenge Biases & Fallacies that Hinder Rational Thinking -- Improve Foresight -- Achieve Successful Outcomes -- Develop Humility -- Approach Objectivity
PERIDEXION is a Socratic seminar course and resource toolset designed to encourage analytic, critical thinking. Participants engage in scientific thinking through learning the limitations of human cognition, challenging natural biases, and applying methods of analytical philosophy toward updating beliefs to approach objectivity. Scientific Thinking is ultimately an individual endeavor: PERIDEXION provides tools to start the process.
