Unlike any other time in history, we are inundated with information
from many sources of media, and depending on one's ideology, the
results can be fractious. Everyone's racing to catch up to what is
reliable, dependable, and true - all the while, feeling deep,
emotional, attachments to our personal understanding of important
issues. It has unfortunately become fashionable to claim that what
people feel about issues should be taken as seriously as the facts
about those issues. Emotional attachment to specific viewpoints and
the facts about the world are often two completely different
things, and we need to keep them distinct. The skill set of
Critical Thinking allows us to better separate facts from feelings
and acknowledges that there is value to our beliefs, our ideas, and
our opinions and that some are simply better than others. But what
makes these objects of the mind and influences of behavior good,
bad, better, or worse? Luckily, much of the hard work has already
been done. Philosophers, mathematicians, logicians, scientists,
writers, and many others have developed the Critical Thinking tools
that require all of us to make such valued distinctions. Here,
DiCarlo has taken six of the most important tools and distilled
them into a skill set that is easy to remember and practical to
apply in everyday life. This skill set provides anyone with the
capacity to be mature, diplomatic, and fair, and to disagree in a
civil manner. For the majority of us, developing such skills will
not happen overnight ... or in a week, or a month. It is something
that is ongoing and requires continuous practice, development, and
use. And in today's age of immediacy, with information and opinion
just a click away, there seems to be less and less time in which to
practice such skills. Perhaps this is one of the reasons so many
people are feeling their way through issues rather than thinking
critically about them. With a better understanding of the tenets of
critical thinking, though, readers will come away from this book
with a renewed sense of engagement with thoughts, opinions,
feelings, and facts.
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