Here are some online resources on Critical Thinking.
Clearer Thinking
The clearer thinking website helps people and organizations to make better decisions, and, as the name suggests, think more clearly. With an evidence-based approach, it uses gamified, engaging interactive tools and quizzes to help us to be more rational.
Your Fallacy Is
Logical fallacies are flaws in reasoning that are often very sneakily used by politicians and the media to fool people. Don’t be fooled! This website has been designed to help you identify and call out dodgy logic wherever it may raise its ugly, incoherent head. You can also download a free high resolution PDF poster of common fallacies. Note that this is our own resource, and it would be logical to infer that we are biased in our evaluation!
Your Bias Is
Interactive website designed to help you identify some of the most common biases stuffing up your thinking. We have evolved to use shortcuts in our thinking, which are often useful, but a cognitive bias means there’s a kind of misfiring going on causing us to lose objectivity. Free PDF poster download also available. Note that this is our own thing and we are utterly biased ourselves including it!
WiseCrack
This YouTube channel explores big ideas like philosophy and critical thinking through the lens of movies, TV shows, video games, current events, books, and more. Check out the 8-bit Philosophy and Thug Notes series in particular
BadNews
Bad News is an online game, where you take on the role of fake news-monger, and drop all pretense of ethics to build a media empire. This fun, gamified approach helps us to more readily identify the tricks used to manipulate us.
Kialo
Interactive public debates with a unique and engaging system to visualize argument structures, and allow participants and viewers to vote on the strength of each argument for or against a claim. It helps to foster a deeper and more nuanced understanding of complex issues, and also to actively develop critical thinking skills.
The Sagan Series
Carl Sagan possessed the rare talent to be able to communicate science and rationality in a poetic and enthralling way. This series of his voice recordings has been edited with modern footage and is breathtakingly beautiful.
The Feynman Series
A YouTube playlist of one of the 20th century’s greatest minds waxing lyrical on science, philosophy, physics, and more.
Scout Mindset TedX
Perspective is everything, especially when it comes to examining your beliefs. Are you a soldier, prone to defending your viewpoint at all costs — or a scout, spurred by curiosity? Julia Galef examines the motivations behind these two mindsets and how they shape the way we interpret information.
Farnam Street Blog
Farnam Street blog helps you master the best of what other people have already figured out. Focusses on mental models and decision making.
Snopes
Fact-checking website to see how and why the latest conspiracy theory is wrong.
edX Critical Thinking
This course introduces principles of philosophical inquiry and critical thinking. Learn how we can use philosophical ideas to think about ourselves and the world around us.
You Are Not So Smart
You Are Not So Smart makes learning about how you’re an idiot rather a lot of fun. David McRaney’s sardonic wit and clear explanations only add to the fascinating subject matter of cognitive biases, fallacies, and psychology more generally. Available in blog, book and podcast form.
Crash Course Philosophy
This YouTube course is based on an introductory Western philosophy college level curriculum. By the end of the course, you will be able to examine topics like the self, ethics, religion, language, art, death, politics, and knowledge through a philosophical perspective
Wi-Phi
Wireless Philosophy or Wi-Phi is an open-access philosophy website that aims to “introduce people to the practice of philosophy by making videos that are freely available in a form that is entertaining.
Mental Models
This list of mental models that Gabriel Weinberg (Founder of DuckDuckGo) finds repeatedly useful is repeatedly useful. A mental model is just a concept you can use to help try to explain things. There are tens of thousands of mental models, and every discipline has their own set that you can learn through coursework, mentorship, or first-hand experience.
Open Mind
An interactive platform that equips people with a set of practical tools to think clearly and communicate constructively across differences.
Intro to Probability
Learn probability, an essential language and set of tools for understanding data, randomness, and uncertainty.
Mindscape
Physicist Sean Carroll explores all manner of ideas from sociology and philosophy, through to his area of expertise in physics and science more generally. The blog, podcast, and YouTube series ‘Biggest Ideas in the Universe’ are all worth checking out.
Philosophy Tube
Giving away a philosophy degree for free! Subscribe to learn and boost your brain power!
Rationally Speaking
Julia Galef interviews leading thinkers about rationality, skepticism, science, philosophy and more.
PACTISS
PACTISS – Philosophers and Critical Thinkers in Senior Schools: Resources for Educators : A database of Philosophy and critical thinking resources.
Partially Examined Life
Four guys who studied philosophy together but then did other things with their lives, and therefore have no institutional restrictions on their ability to speak freely and wax lyrical, examining all the greatest thinkers throughout history. Each episode involves discussing a great philosophical work, and you can either read it pre-emptively and enjoy the conversation, or just use the podcast as a kind of ‘cliff’s notes for all of philosophy’.
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