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Critical Thinking and Perceptual Blockades

logic (formal and informal), critical thinking is generally considered to be part of the informal variety. When a person employs c...

How Important is Critical Thinking?

allows the student to explore a discipline in greater detail than he or she might have been able to do as an undergrad (Warwick Bu...

Dialectical Thought According to Horkheimer, Adorno and Benjamin

In five pages Horkheimer's dialectical thinking is examined in terms of design and application by two additional theorists from th...

Carl Jung's 4 Styles of Solving Problems

Jung recognized that personality type affects the way that an individual learns and deals with these transitions (Borg and Shapiro...

Grammar and Thought

is evidence that even pre-verbal toddlers listen to statements that are grammatically correct while tuning out those which are not...

A Case Study in Hospital Critical Thinking

however, without first obtaining better control of interorganizational practices. Indeed, the situation at present is not only ch...

Simulation on Critical Thinking

is not a new concept. It is actually one which dates from ancient times but with the speed with which information can be passed t...

The Development of the Fyborg

situations in terms of past experiences. Capra (1997) refers to this pattern as the "Computer Model of Cognition" (p. 65), ...

Concepts and Their Evolutionary Progression in Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

In ten pages Origin of Species is examined in terms of its first 8 chapters in order to support the argument that the book itself ...

Criminology in the Postmodern Era

with power and crime: "Not only can the power of the word be exposed as creating domination; in addition, one means of resistance ...

Using Critical Thinking to Tell Truth from Lies

Critical thinking has become even more important in today's society of opinion masquerading as news. This paper analyzes contempor...

Animal Thinking and Language

between thought and language (Myers, 2006). The findings of renowned linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) that were published ...

Decisions in Paradise

founder. When the potential outcomes are considered, and a preferable one is identified the decision-making process can then move ...

“Blink”: Gut Feelings and the Diagnosis of Heart Conditions

(one of the complicating factors in coronary artery disease) on an annual basis (Woods 27). Unfortunately, even more go untreated...

Ancient Greek Philosophers

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

Political Thinking: The Perennial Questions by Glenn Tinder

a student, or anyone else, this think, but can present some insights that students and teachers alike may find useful, he states ...

Virginia Held on defining "Human" and "Natural"

a woman gives her child is "incorporated into the framework of the natural," rather than thought of as a matter of choice, which w...

Portraying Character on Screen

of the play, which is the fact that Toms continues to love his sister, miss her and long for a different past, as he pursues a dif...

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

Scientific Thought

phrase "its not rocket science" is used to suggest that a certain topic is not that difficult, implying that science is quite diff...

Systems Thinking

a network within ecological communities that provided organisms with the means to life. In 1928, a Hungarian biologist, Ludwig vo...

Global Warming

much carbon dioxide. But, in one article it is interestingly uncovered that a new source of global warming may be a serious culpri...

The Relationship Between Critical Thinking And Language

That such testing procedures expect the same scholastic performance from all students no matter their cultural or academic backgro...

Describing Mental Illness

feels about their illness. The difficulties are then associated with a more physical symptom that the reader may be able to identi...

Thought Process of Criminals

indolence which refers to a desire to take the easiest path; cutoff of the ability to eliminate feelings of fear; power orientatio...

Persuasion and its Relation To Critical Thinking

than it must be true (Kemerling, 2001). The most recent example of this is the current war that the US is fighting in Iraq. Presid...

Systems Thinking Discussion Questions

a solid business case - i.e., saving money - for approaching decisions and projects from the system perspective. If efficient ope...

Ethics: Utilitarianism

the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" (Jeremy Bentham, 2006). This simple co...

Case Decision Making

this model, it is seen as being objective. However, it is possible that input data may be subjectively influences, the processes a...

'Forbidden Thoughts' in the Mind of Jeffrey Dahmer

In six pages this paper discusses the forbidden thoughts that haunted Jeffrey Dahmer and how he acted them out in his heinous kill...