Philosophy › Section B · Critical thinking, reading, and writing › Topic B.3
Developing good habits of mind
Biases cannot be switched off, but they can be outflanked. A handful of deliberate habits, practised until they become routine, make your thinking fairer, more testable and more honest about its limits.
In this topic
- Habits, not quick fixes
- Stepping back from your circumstances
- Steelmanning and charity
- Counterexamples
- Worked example: testing a definition
- Handling strong emotions
- Epistemic humility
- Where did that belief come from?
- The Dunning-Kruger effect
- Worked example: auditing a belief
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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