Critical Thinking
The mechanics of doubt, reflection, and reasoning well.
Thinking clearly is a skill, not a default state. Most of the time the mind runs on fast, automatic judgment; thinking hard is a deliberate override that takes effort and a method. These essays look at why that effort matters and what it actually consists of: the difference between reacting and reflecting, and the Socratic habits (steel-manning, exposing assumptions, honest doubt) that keep a belief from being either dismissed or accepted too easily.
