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Thinking Critically about Health and Health Care
You will be able to
- appreciate the risks posed by various causal confusions in reasoning about health.
- understand the importance of critically evaluating all news reports related to health.
- recognize the importance and limits of expert advice related to health.
- avoid the most common fallacies found in reasoning about health.
Thinking Critically about the Law
You will be able to
- appreciate the role of “inference to the best explanation” in legal reasoning.
- understand the way that legal reasoning involves application of categorical logic.
- recognize the significance of key fallacies as they appear in legal reasoning.
Thinking Critically about Ethics
You will be able to
- distinguish between ethical claims and descriptive claims.
- appreciate why critical thinking skills are as relevant to ethical claims as they are to other sorts of claims.
- distinguish among ethical premises that draw upon the three historically important traditions of ethics.