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| Acknowledgment | |
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| Preface | |
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| Thinking in a World of Accelerating Change and Intensifying Danger | |
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| The Nature of the Post-Industrial World Order | |
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| A Complex World of Accelerating Change | |
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| A Threatening World | |
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| Change, Danger, and Complexity: Interwoven | |
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| The Challenge of Becoming Critical Thinkers | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Becoming a Critic of Your Thinking | |
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| How Skilled is Your Thinking (Right Now)? | |
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| Good Thinking Is as Easy as Bad Thinking (But It Requires Hard Work to Develop It) | |
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| The Hard Cruel World | |
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| Become a Critic of Your Own Thinking | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Becoming a Fair-Minded Thinker | |
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| Weak versus Strong Critical Thinking | |
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| What Does Fair-Mindedness Require? | |
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| Intellectual Humility: Having Knowledge of Ignorance | |
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| Intellectual Courage: Being Willing to Challenge Beliefs | |
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| Intellectual Empathy: Entertaining Opposing Views | |
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| Intellectual Integrity: Holding Ourselves to the Same Standards to Which We Hold Others | |
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| Intellectual Perseverance: Working Through Complexity and Frustration | |
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| Confidence in Reason: Recognizing that Good Reasoning Has Proven Its Worth | |
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| Intellectual Autonomy: Being an Independent Thinker | |
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| Recognizing the Interdependence of Intellectual Virtues | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Self-Understanding | |
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| Monitoring the Egocentrism in Your Thought and Life | |
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| Making a Commitment to Fair-Mindedness | |
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| Recognizing the Mind's Three Distinctive Functions | |
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| Understanding That You Have a Special Relationship to Your Mind | |
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| The First Four Stages of Development: What Level Thinker Are You? | |
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| Stage One: The Unreflective Thinker-Are You an Unreflective Thinker? | |
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| Stage Two: The Challenged Thinker-Are You Ready to Accept the Challenge? | |
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| Stage Three: The Beginning Thinker-Are You Willing to Begin? | |
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| Stage Four: The Practicing Thinker-Good Thinking Can Be Practiced | |
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| Like Basketball, Tennis, or Ballet | |
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| A "Game Plan" for Improvement | |
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| A Game Plan for Devising a Game Plan | |
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| The Parts of Thinking | |
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| Reasoning Is Everywhere in Human Life | |
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| Does Reasoning Have Parts? | |
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| Beginning to Think About Your Own Reasoning | |
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| The Elements of Thought: A First Look | |
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| An Everyday Example: Jack and Jill | |
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| Analysis of the Example | |
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| The Elements of Thought in Relationship | |
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| The Relationship Between the Elements | |
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| Thinking to Some Purpose | |
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| Thinking with Concepts | |
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| Thinking with Information | |
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| Distinguishing Between Inert Information, Activated Ignorance, and Activated Knowledge | |
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| Some Key Questions to Ask When Pursuing Information | |
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| Distinguishing Between Inferences and Assumptions | |
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| Understanding Implications | |
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| Thinking Within and Across Points of View | |
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| Using Critical Thinking to Take Charge of How We See Things | |
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| The Point of View of the Critical Thinker | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Standards for Thinking | |
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| Taking a Deeper Look at Universal Intellectual Standards | |
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| Bringing Together the Elements of Reasoning and the Intellectual Standards | |
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| Using Intellectual Standards to Assess Your Thinking: Brief Guidelines | |
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| Design Your Life | |
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| Fate or Freedom: Which Do You Choose? | |
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| Recognizing the Dual Logic of Experience | |
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| Facing Contradictions and Inconsistencies | |
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| Social Forces, the Mass Media, and Our Experience | |
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| Reading Backwards | |
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| Implications for the Design of Your Life | |
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| The Art of Making Intelligent Decisions | |
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| Thinking Globally About Your Life | |
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| Evaluating Patterns in Decision-Making | |
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| “Big” Decisions | |
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| The Logic of Decision-Making | |
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| Recognizing the Need for an Important Decision | |
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| Accurately Recognizing the Alternatives | |
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| Putting More Time into | |