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Critical thinking springs from the notion of reflective thought proposed by Dewey (1933), who borrowed from the work of philosophers such as William James and Charles Peirce. Reflective thought was ...

I t has been almost 70 years since the term “artificial intelligence” was coined at a 1956 Dartmouth College summer workshop. The conference was convened by the mathematician John McCarthy, who ...

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We Americans have some important questions to ask ourselves: 1. Can we tell the difference between facts and opinions? 2. Have we lost our innate sense of what is right and what is wrong; what is true ...