Subject Code: HS2L010	Subject Name: Critical Thinking	L-T-P: 3-0-0	Credit: 3
Pre-Requisite(s): None
Content: Brief Introduction to Life Skills; Critical Thinking as a Life Skill; Definitions of Critical Thinking; Components of Critical Thinking; Critical Thinking as Objective Analysis of Information; Basics of Argumentation: Components of an argument, Identifying assumptions, Types of arguments, Paraphrasing and Diagramming arguments; Common rhetorical tricks; Deductive arguments; non-deductive arguments: Statistical Arguments, Analogical Arguments, Moral Arguments; Strategies for evaluating arguments: Validity, Soundness, Evaluating criteria for analogical argument, Evaluating Statistical arguments, General strategies for evaluating arguments; Fallacies: Formal (Affirming the antecedent, denying the consequent) and Informal (Fallacies of relevance, Fallacies of presumption, Fallacies of faculty generalisation, Fallacies of ambiguity); Intellectual Empathy and other intellectual virtues of a critical thinker; System 1 thinking vs System 2 thinking; Heuristics; Cognitive Biases; Prejudice Stereotype and Discrimination and overcoming them. Text/Reference Books: Patrick J Hurley. A Concise Introduction to Logic. Cengage Learning, 2012 Stephen E Toulmin. The Uses of Argument. Cambridge University Press, 2003 Neil M. Browne and Stuart M. Keeley. Asking the Right Questions: A Guide To Critical Thinking. Pearson, 2018 Roy F Baumeister and Brad J Bushman. Social Psychology and Human Nature. Cengage Learning, 2014 Bimal Krishna Matilal. The Character of Logic in India. State University of New York Press, 1998 Daniel Kahneman. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin Books, 2011

Subject Code: HS2L010

Subject Name: Critical Thinking

L-T-P: 3-0-0

Credit: 3

Pre-Requisite(s): None

Content:

Brief Introduction to Life Skills; Critical Thinking as a Life Skill; Definitions of Critical Thinking; Components of Critical Thinking; Critical Thinking as Objective Analysis of Information; Basics of Argumentation: Components of an argument, Identifying assumptions, Types of arguments, Paraphrasing and Diagramming arguments; Common rhetorical tricks; Deductive arguments; non-deductive arguments: Statistical Arguments, Analogical Arguments, Moral Arguments; Strategies for evaluating arguments: Validity, Soundness, Evaluating criteria for analogical argument, Evaluating Statistical arguments, General strategies for evaluating arguments; Fallacies: Formal (Affirming the antecedent, denying the consequent) and Informal (Fallacies of relevance, Fallacies of presumption, Fallacies of faculty generalisation, Fallacies of ambiguity); Intellectual Empathy and other intellectual virtues of a critical thinker; System 1 thinking vs System 2 thinking; Heuristics; Cognitive Biases; Prejudice Stereotype and Discrimination and overcoming them.

Text/Reference Books:

Patrick J Hurley. A Concise Introduction to Logic. Cengage Learning, 2012
Stephen E Toulmin. The Uses of Argument. Cambridge University Press, 2003
Neil M. Browne and Stuart M. Keeley. Asking the Right Questions: A Guide To Critical Thinking. Pearson, 2018
Roy F Baumeister and Brad J Bushman. Social Psychology and Human Nature. Cengage Learning, 2014
Bimal Krishna Matilal. The Character of Logic in India. State University of New York Press, 1998
Daniel Kahneman. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin Books, 2011