Reasoning in the Real World

Module 1 built the toolkit: arguments, logic, fallacies, biases, and how to weigh evidence. This module takes that toolkit into the messiest environment there is — the modern information world, where most of what you read was written to be shared, not to be true.

You will learn to judge sources and expertise, read the news for what it leaves out, tell misinformation from disinformation, notice rhetoric and propaganda at work, understand why smart people fall for conspiracy theories, think more clearly inside algorithm-driven feeds, and — the hardest skill of all — steelman the other side and change your own mind when the evidence demands it.