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Richard Paul

Boston College
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Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America
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    Fact over Fake: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Media Bias and Political Propaganda
    with Linda Elder
    The Foundation for Critical Thinking. 2020.
    This book reveals the power of critical thinking to make sense of overwhelming and often subjective media by detecting ideology, slant, and spin at work. Building off the Paul and Elder framework for critical thinking, Elder focuses on the internal logic of the news as well as societal influences on the media.
    Propaganda
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    McPeck's mistakes
    Informal Logic 7 (1). 1985.
    Informal Logic
  •  52
    The Thinker's Guide for Conscientious Citizens on How to Detect Media Bias and Propaganda in National and World News: Based on Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools (edited book)
    with Linda Elder
    The Foundation For Critical Thinking. 2008.
    Designed to help readers learn to seek out and recognize bias in the news; detect ideology, slant, and spin; and recognize propaganda, this volume in the Thinker’s Guide Library empowers readers to weed through overwhelming and often subjective media. It is an ideal supplement for media courses or a companion to daily news reports.
    Propaganda
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    Comments on "The Nature of Critical Thinking"
    Informal Logic 6 (2). 1984.
    Informal Logic
  •  244
    Background logic, critical thinking, and irrational language games
    Informal Logic 7 (1). 1985.
    Background Logic, Critical Thinking, and Irrational Language Games.
    Informal Logic
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    Teaching Critical Thinking in the "Strong" Sense: A Focus On Self-Deception, World Views, and a Dialectical Mode of Analysis
    Informal Logic 4 (2). 1981.
    Teaching Critical Thinking in the "Strong" Sense: A Focus On Self-Deception, World Views, and a Dialectical Mode of Analysis
    Informal Logic
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    Critical Thinking and General Semantics
    Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 11 (2): 3-7. 1993.
    Informal Logic
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    Critical Thinking and the State of Education Today
    Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 16 (2): 12-34. 1996.
    Informal Logic
  •  118
    Reflections on the Nature of Critical Thinking, Its History, Politics, and Barriers and on Its Status across the College/University Curriculum Part I
    Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 26 (3): 5-24. 2011.
    This paper is a response to INQUIRY editor Frank Fair’s invitation to me to write a reflective piece that sheds light on my involvement in the field of Critical Thinking Studies . My response is in two parts. The two parts together might be called “Reflections on the nature of critical thinking and on its status across the college/university curriculum.” The parts together have been written with a long term and large-scale end in view. If successful the two parts will shed light on why the criti…Read more
    This paper is a response to INQUIRY editor Frank Fair’s invitation to me to write a reflective piece that sheds light on my involvement in the field of Critical Thinking Studies . My response is in two parts. The two parts together might be called “Reflections on the nature of critical thinking and on its status across the college/university curriculum.” The parts together have been written with a long term and large-scale end in view. If successful the two parts will shed light on why the critical thinking movement has not yet contributed significantly to human emancipation or to more just and fair-minded communities . It will also present some strategies for making such a contribution
    Informal Logic
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