Critical thinking « Sanjeev Sabhlok's revolutionary blog

Mathematics
Scientific method

I write a lot about critical thinking. The most comprehensive discussion is in two chapters in The Discovery of Freedom (draft manuscript here). Here are a few blog posts that illustrate this concept.

Trust no one – but yourself

I'm am amateur and I delight in it

Addendum

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/07/the-dignity-of-skepticism.html

http://reason.com/archives/2011/08/02/a-trick-of-the-mind

http://www.philosophypress.co.uk/?p=1951 (David Hume’s impact on causation – Hume is very close to Charvaka, believing that "we cannot go beyond experience when it comes to investigating the nature of reality")

The Role of the Individual in Science and Religion (a good distinction between the importance of knowledge vs. importance of a 'founder')

Innovation

Think different (about Clay Christensen's book, The Innovator's Dilemma). Mr Christensen and his colleagues list five habits of mind that characterise disruptive innovators: