Critical Thinking: What is it?

The brain: What is critical about it?

We review the recent proposal that the most fascinating brain properties are related to the fact that it always stays close to a second order phase transition. In such conditions, the collective of neuronal groups can reliably generate robust and flexible behavior, because it is known that at the critical point there is the largest abundance of metastable states to choose from. Here we review t...

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Algebraic Thinking in the Early Grades: What Is It?

This reaction paper is written from the perspective of a researcher whose work in the learning of algebra has primarily been with 12to 16-year-olds. To provide some context for the comments and questions I will be raising with respect to the set of papers contained in this collection, I begin with remarks of a theoretical nature, first focusing on distinctions between arithmetic and algebraic t...

The Improvement of Critical Thinking Skills in What Philosophy Is

After determining one set of skills that we hoped our students were learning in the introductory philosophy class at Carnegie Mellon University, we designed an experiment to test whether they were actually learning these skills. In addition, there were four sections of this course in the Spring of 2004, and the students in Section 1 were taught the material using argument diagrams as a tool to ...

Examining critical thinking and teaching it in education

To have a healthy community requires a healthy family; and one of the key to having a healthy family is transcendental education with the program. As education is one of the main pillars of a progressive society, attention to its basic pillars and structures has a special place. In recent years, Critical Thinking has been supposed as one of the essential components of education. Despite the imp...