Course Description

Instructor: Dan Zins

A course on critical and empathetic thinking based on the best-selling book by Kathryn Schultz, “Being Wrong.”  Schultz writes:  “Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition.  Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honorable qualities:  empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction and courage....  Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.”  Please obtain a copy of “Being Wrong” and begin reading.  You will really like this book.  (Hope I’m right about that.)