Critical Thinking, The Rhetoric of CNN vs Joe Rogan, and Rethinking Higher Ed | Jonathan Haber 

Rest in peace, Mr. Haber. Thank you for coming on the show and making the world a little saner. 

In this first episode of season 2, we take on a heavy topic: critical thinking. We talk about the Joe Rogan vs CNN rhetorical battle--and why we all lose with this kind of rhetoric; Jonathan discusses modern-day journalism a little bit; we model a bit of Aristotelian logic; I expose my own recent failures in the classroom; we talk about how we can better teach critical thinking in higher education, and how to better gauge whether or not something makes sense logically; and much more. 

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EPISODE OUTLINE:

00:00 Introduction

01:54 How did your parents help you think critically?

04:26 To define critical thinking or not to define critical thinking

09:13 The separation of science and philosophy. Is it a good thing?

12:40 I expose my own recent failure in the classroom. 

21:05 Let's try to model critical thinking in the moment

38:45 Joe Rogan vs CNN a battle of rhetorics

53:27 My students are awesome. Just heaping some praise on them.

1:05:44 Closing thoughts

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3) Podcasting Rhetorics and Joe Rogan | My Conversation with Matthew Jacobson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsOMhCZORts

4) Fighting the War Not Seen | My Conversation with Tim Overton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJjGit4H_Q8

5) Hit Song, Hit Commercial, and Still More to Do | My Conversation with Musician/Actor DC Glenn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DyFYIfEFR4

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