06.29.06
Critical thinking
Nearly everyone is in favor of critical thinking. This is evidence that the term is in danger of becoming meaningless. Skeptics should spearhead the effort to clarify what critical thinking is-and what it is not. The stakes are high.
Current skeptics seem to have forgotten the Kantian roots of one of the great branches of the tradition of critical thinking. The deteriorated versions current in the age of positivism/Darwinism couldn’t reach first gear in Kantian mode. As ‘critical thinking’ it is completely pseudo and routinely gives its adherents bum steers and gets them into endless difficulties, witness the Darwin debate, the theism/atheism dialectic, etc, etc,…