Truth course
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Subtitle: Finding reliable knowledge in a huge and deceptive world. | Subtitle: Finding reliable knowledge in a huge and deceptive world. | ||
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| + | For a number of years, I've wanted to save students from a great deal of wasted time and energy following philosophical, religious, economic, pseudoscientific, political and other dead ends. Instead, I'd rather jump-start them into modern positions of skepticism, scientific knowledge, history and other fields while vaccinating them against the most pernicious frauds and giving them the tools to test these for themselves. | ||
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| + | I'm thinking of creating a senior elective course with an appropriate textbook. The goal would be to teach high-level thinking skills for evaluating the differences between reliable knowledge (such as science) and unreliable knowledge (such as creationism.) | ||
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| + | I'm still in a brainstorming and resource acquisition phase, and I'm looking for collaborators. | ||
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== Resources == | == Resources == | ||
* Steven Poole, "Unspeak" http://unspeak.net/ | * Steven Poole, "Unspeak" http://unspeak.net/ | ||
