{"id":4857,"date":"2019-03-03T08:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T15:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2019-03-03T08:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T15:23:22","slug":"episode-36-thinking-about-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/episode-36-thinking-about-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 36 &#8211; Thinking About Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_702\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4857-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/secularhubcast\/Episode_36_-_Thinking_About_Thinking.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/secularhubcast\/Episode_36_-_Thinking_About_Thinking.mp3\">https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/secularhubcast\/Episode_36_-_Thinking_About_Thinking.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/secularhubcast\/Episode_36_-_Thinking_About_Thinking.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=4857-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/secularhubcast\/Episode_36_-_Thinking_About_Thinking.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_36_-_Thinking_About_Thinking.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\">\n<p>We are all thinking all the time.\u00a0 With some of us it might not always appears so, but our minds are running constantly.\u00a0 Opinions, beliefs, evidence,\u00a0 facts; all these elements combine and form in our minds.<\/p>\n<p>Critical thought is a manner of thinking that will lead to greater and more factual understanding of the universe.\u00a0 It relies on measurements and evidence and avoiding problems in thinking to reveal truths and separate them from falsehoods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But truth is an ongoing process.\u00a0 Truth is always tentative.\u00a0 In this discussion Jesse and Paul get into the complexity of it all to break it down and simplify it.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode we rely pretty heavily on a piece of writing called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csicop.org\/si\/show\/field_guide_to_critical_thinking\">&#8220;A Field Guide to Critical Thinking&#8221;\u00a0<\/a>by James Lett.\u00a0 Check it out and let us know what we got wrong in this episode.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\">\n<p>Hosts:\u00a0 Jesse Gilbertson, Paul Schilling<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\">\n<p>Editor: Jesse Gilbertson<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Robin for help with announcements<\/p>\n<p>Logo Design: Terry Kirkham<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\">The views and opinions expressed are those of their respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Secular Hub.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\">***<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\">The Secular HubCast: The Voice of Denver\u2019s Secular Hub.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\">Become a member of the Secular Hub today!<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\">Subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCw6r0_l8I4cZm0ohuUT2hyQ?view_as=subscriber\">YouTube Channel<\/a><br \/>\nFollow the Secular Hub on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SecularHub\/\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\nFollow the Secular Hub on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecularHub\">@SecularHub<\/a><br \/>\nMusic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MkNeIUgNPQ8\">A Himitsu &#8211; Adventures<\/a> (unedited, used under Creative Commons License)<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are all thinking all the time.\u00a0 With some of us it might not always appears so, but our minds are running constantly.\u00a0 Opinions, beliefs, evidence,\u00a0 facts; all these elements combine and form in our minds. Critical thought is a manner of thinking that will lead to greater and more factual understanding of the universe.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/episode-36-thinking-about-thinking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 36 &#8211; Thinking About Thinking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,79,14,130],"tags":[331,332,170,326,323,328,327,329,273,324,330,239,325],"class_list":["post-4857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-community-news","category-discussion","category-podcast","category-science","tag-center-for-inquiry","tag-cfi","tag-critical-thinking","tag-critical-thought","tag-evidence","tag-falsifiability","tag-flchrs","tag-ghost","tag-jesse-gilbertson","tag-logic","tag-paul-schilling","tag-robin","tag-thinking","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4859,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions\/4859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}