No credible consciousness without critical thinking

No credible consciousness without critical thinking.

In their essay, ‘The ubiquity of conscious­ ness’, Trewavas and Baluska ask “on what experimental evidence, other than supposition, do we reject consciousness in other organisms?” [1]. The authors use some examples of adaptive behavioural responses of animals and plants to argue that con­ sciousness is everywhere. Their ambition to approach the question of consciousness without bias is brave, b...

Critical Thinking about 'critical Thinking'

Thinking about Consciousness

Elaborates a materialist view of consciousness. The central thesis of the book is that while conscious states are material, we humans have two quite different ways of thinking about them. We can think about them materially, as normal parts of the material world, but we can also think about them phenomenally, as states that feel a certain way. These two modes of thought refer to the same items i...

Critical Thinking

Introduction: One of the main goals of education is thinking development. Thinking about thinking for improving the thinking process is the heart of critical thinking. This paper aimed to provide different definitions of critical thinking. Methods: This review was conducted on some published articles during 1990 to 2007 in the field of critical thinking Results: Various experts have used dif...

The Effect of Teaching Critical Thinking Strategies on Students’ Academic Writing, Critical Thinking Ability, and Critical Thinking Dispositions

This study intended to investigate the interplay of critical thinking explicit instruction, academic writing performance, critical thinking ability, and critical thinking dispositions of Iranian students. To this end, 140 students of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences (73 males and 67 females) were selected. They were divided into the experimental and control groups. Both groups received ins...