The Thinker's Guide to Engineering Reasoning: Based on Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools (Thinker's Guide Library)

A Checklist for Engineering Reasoning

To Analyze Thinking We Must Learn to Identify and Question its Elemental Structures

Intellectual Curiosity entails inquisitiveness as well as a strong desire to deeply understand, to figure things out, to propose and assess useful and plausible hypotheses and explanations; it implies a strong propensity to learn and to search out solutions; it propels the thinker toward further and deeper learning.

Fairmindedness is being conscious of the need to treat all viewpoints alike, without reference to one’s own feelings or vested interests, or the feelings or vested interests of one’s friends, company, community or nation.

Intellectual autonomy is thinking for oneself while adhering to standards of rationality.

Intellectual perseverance is the disposition to work your way through intellectual complexities despite frustrations inherent in the task.

Confidence in reason is based on the belief that one’s own higher interests and those of humankind at large are best served by giving the freest play to reason.

Intellectual integrity consists in holding yourself to the same intellectual standards you expect others to honor (no double standards).

Intellectual empathy is awareness of the need to actively entertain views that differ from your own, especially those with which you strongly disagree.