Think Critically: Deductive Reasoning and Mental Models
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Taught by Adam Trybus, Dr. Terrence Sejnowski, Dr. Barbara Oakley
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About the course
Enhance your analytical skills with "Think Critically: Deductive Reasoning and Mental Models." This innovative course brings together Barbara Oakley and Terry Sejnowski, the team behind the wildly popular "Learning How to Learn," along with Adam Trybus, Professor of Logic at the Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Explore the foundations of logic and reasoning, from Aristotelian principles to modern deductive approaches. You'll learn how to construct and evaluate argumen
The consensus
Every one of the 8 reviews we read gave it 4★ or more. This is the most-upvoted one (no upvotes).
“This course help me understand much better about how I should think when I want to think critically. In essence, it's all about define the premesis, the logic & the conclusion, findout different POV , the weakness & strength of each of it”
Coursera's 4.8 comes from 42 ratings. Of those, 2.4% are 1–2★.
Starisk reads the reviews learners voted most helpful, and weights each by the square root of its votes: a review with 80 upvotes counts about five times one with 2. Unvoted reviews are not skipped out of laziness — by this model they carry no evidence that other students endorsed them.
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Reviews read on 23 Oct 2026.Read them on Coursera ↗