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Analytical Thinking
The late philosopher suggested adding a couple of “Occam’s heuristics” to your critical thinking toolbox.
Beyond stars, galaxies, and gravity, studying the fundamental workings of nature reveals widely applicable lessons for learners everywhere.
There's value to be found in the arguments that make you uncomfortable — especially in a culture that has trained us to avoid them.
If philosophers really enjoy one thing, it’s a good debate — but not an argument.
Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
A perfect map is as useless as it is impossible to create.
Just being a pessimist, cynic, or apathetic doesn't make you a nihilist.
The road from Kant to modern cognitive psychology has taught us much about our mental filtering systems.
Voltaire's wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
A human hand has the power to split wooden planks and demolish concrete blocks. A trio of physicists investigated why this feat doesn’t shatter our bones.
The ability to toggle between abstract and concrete thinking is a key differentiator of high-potential leaders.
When is a rabbit not a rabbit? When it's a thought experiment designed to reveal the tricky tango of language and concepts.
What the breakthrough methods of laboratory research can teach the business world about brainstorming.
Ethan Mollick, associate professor at the Wharton School, explains why we have to crack the machine-buddy problem.
In logic, 'reductio ad absurdum' shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.
Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.
Almost everything we can observe and measure follows what's known as a normal distribution, or a Bell curve. There's a profound reason why.
Ways to move forward when you're wrong and I'm right.
Wolfgang Pauli was a brilliant, well-liked physicist and a scathing critic of balderdash.
"I grew up in New Jersey in the 1970s and that experience gave me everything I needed to become a skeptic."
Survivorship bias occurs when we fail to consider how data was collected. To combat this, search for the "silent evidence."
Dive into five philosophical schools that have faded into obscurity but still whisper through the ages.
Step 1: Don't solve the wrong problem.
The patron saint of calling BS, Harry Frankfurt, died watching his philosophy become more urgent than ever.
The idea is to study the thing itself — be it a work of literature, death, family, a car, a vaccine, or the hospital — without preconceived notions, trendy easy answers, or dogma imposed on it.
AI was the most divisive topic in a recent predictions tournament.
If you've found yourself befuddled by extraordinary scientific-sounding claims, you're not alone. But this centuries-old lesson can help.
The path of a curling stone on ice — and how it can be influenced — is a revealing metaphor for life's decisions.
Math can explain why your laces spontaneously come untied — and how to stop it.
Debate is a verbal sport with winners and losers. As such, it is less about the truth and more about who looks and sounds the best.